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As the climate crisis becomes a climate emergency, filmmakers are finding inspiring new ways to tell the story of what has, and will become, of our planet. In what critics have hailed as “monumental” (Slate) and “a cinematic gift” (The New York Times), Toronto director Brett Story turns her unique lens on the residents of New York City during the record-breaking heat of August 2017. Unfolding through a collage of beautiful, hypnotic snapshots, Story observes her subjects as they try to cope and look ahead to the future amid an already uncertain present. An urgent time capsule—and portrait of a society rife with anxiety, regrets, hope and love—this Hot Docs 2019 favourite is a vital testimony that will only become more pertinent as time passes.