Truth before spectacle
We never stage, fabricate or distort events to heighten a story. If it happens on screen in our documentaries, it happened.
Films & Documentaries
Every story needs a North Star.
Polaris Pictures is an independent studio for feature films and documentaries — stories told with honesty, made with craft and built to endure.
01 The Studio
Polaris Pictures is a new studio with an old-fashioned belief: that cinema should hold true — to the people who trust us with their stories, to the audiences who give us their time, and to the craft that makes a story last. Like the star we are named for, we intend to be a fixed point: steady, honest and easy to navigate by.
Nilesh Raaj
Founder & Creative Director
Our story
Feature Films
Documentaries
Docu-Series
Co-Productions
Stories that hold true
02 The Slate
Seven stories, one standard.
Three feature films, three feature documentaries and a docu-series — each at a different point on its journey to the screen.
View the full slate03 What we make
Two disciplines. One promise.
Whether we are building a world from scratch or stepping into someone else’s, the obligation is the same: tell the truth, and tell it beautifully.
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Feature Films
Fiction that feels true. Character-driven dramas and elevated genre stories with a distinctive point of view — made for the big screen.
Explore films
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Documentaries
Truth that feels cinematic. Feature documentaries and docu-series made with rigour, patience and deep respect for the people in them.
Explore documentaries05 How we work
From first spark to final frame.
We are a full-service studio. We develop, finance, produce and deliver our own films — and bring the same care to every partner we make work with.
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Develop
From logline to greenlight: research, rights, writers’ rooms, pitch materials and packaging — the patient work that makes a film possible.
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Finance & Produce
Budgets, financing, co-production partners, crewing, casting and principal photography — run with rigorous care for every person on set.
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Finish
Editorial, colour, sound, music and VFX, shaped in close collaboration with our directors until every frame earns its place.
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Release
Festival strategy, sales, distribution and impact campaigns that carry our stories to the audiences — and communities — they were made for.
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Projects on the slate
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Feature films
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Documentary projects
2027
First premieres
06 Our promise
What you can hold us to.
Trust is the only currency a storyteller really has. These are the commitments we make to every audience, participant and partner.
A real duty of care
Participants, cast and crew are looked after before, during and long after production — with consent that is continuous, not a one-off signature.
Craft without compromise
Every film is made to the highest technical and artistic standard its budget can bear — with time built in for the work to become good.
Partnerships that last
Clear terms, fair credit and honest communication. We want every collaborator to finish a film with us wanting to make the next one.