Polaris (2022 film)

Polaris
Directed byKirsten Carthew
Written byKirsten Carthew
Produced byPaul Cadieux
Kirsten Carthew
Max Fraser
Alyson Richards
Starring
CinematographyDavid Schuurman
Edited byGeoff Klein
Music byJudith Gruber-Stitzer
Release date
  • 14 July 2022 (2022-07-14) (Fantasia International Film Festival)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Polaris is a 2022 Canadian action film directed by Kirsten Carthew.[1] The film stars Viva Lee as Sumi, a young girl who is trying to reunite with her mother after being kidnapped by marauders, and is lost in a frozen wasteland where her only guide is a polar bear.[2]

The film is thematically related to, but not a direct expansion of, Carthew's 2015 short film Fish Out of Water.[3]