The Hottest August

Directed by Brett Story,2019, Canada | USA,94 minutes

Future generations will ask this question: What were we doing while the planet burned? The Hottest August attempts to answer the question during one sweltering month in 2017, New York City's hottest August. A portrait of collective anxiety, the film seeks out New Yorkers from each of the boroughs recording conversations on everything but climate change: skyrocketing rents, homelessness, violence, corruption, the economy and Trump. The city's people yearn for security in an increasingly uncertain world and see threats arising from everywhere other than a warming planet.