Polarized

Polarized (2025)

Same town, different worlds.

Lisa, an aspiring songwriter, whose farming family has suffered foreclosure is forced to work at a new, 'urban farm' where she meets Dalia. Her casual racism leads her to be fired but the women end up drawn into a passionate affair.

Date of release
2025-02-27
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Shamim Sarif

Casting

Interesting facts

Polarized is a British-Canadian drama film, written and directed by Shamim Sarif and released in 2023. The film stars Holly Deveaux as Lisa, a young farm girl from rural Manitoba who is fired by manager Dalia from her job after an angry, racially insensitive outburst, only for the two women to subsequently develop a romantic relationship which tests the divisions and cleavages in the community around race, religion and sexuality.

Production

The film was inspired in part by Sarif's own 27-year relationship with her partner Hanan Kattan, who was one of the film's producers. Kattan and the couple's children, Luca and Ethan Sarif-Kattan, all had small supporting appearances in the film.

It was shot in Manitoba in the late summer and fall of 2021.

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