A material which forms a cured film that has high solvent resistance, the property of aligning liquid crystals, heat resistance, high transparency, and high planarization characteristics and which, when used in forming a cured film, can be dissolved in various solvents usable in a line for producing, for example, a planarization film for color filters. The material is a polyester composition for forming heat-cured films which comprises a polyester as component (A), a crosslinking agent as component (B), and at least one diester compound represented by formula (1) as component (C). (In formula (1), P represents an alicyclic group, a group composed of an alicyclic group and an aliphatic group, or a structure represented by formula (2), and Q represents an alicyclic group or a group composed of an alicyclic group and an aliphatic group. In formula (2), R represents an alkylene group.)