We make films about what people find hard to say. The families we’re born to and the ones we find. Love across distance. The small kindnesses that speak when words can’t. Funny and sad at once, because life usually is.

Films

The ghats of Varanasi in golden haze, with lamps reflected in the river and a boatman in the foreground.

The Fourteenth Step (working title)

A feature drama in English and Hindi, set on the ghats of Varanasi, about the letters we keep and the words we wish we’d heard.

Written and directed by Sam Johnston.

In development
An elevated subway train pulling into a lamplit platform in Queens at dusk.

About

Polite Rain Films develops and produces character-driven films for international audiences. Based in New York, we tell stories across cultures and continents, made close to the ground, with people from the places they’re set. We believe stories told with care travel furthest.

Contact

For producers, financiers, sales agents and representatives:

hello@politerainfilms.com