''The Hottest August'' is a 2019 Canadian-American documentary film directed by

Brett Story Brett Story is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 film ''The Prison in Twelve Landscapes''. The film was awarded a $5,000 Special Jury Citation in the Best Canadian Feature Documentary category at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadia ...

. The film is composed of encounters between Story and strangers in

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in August 2017, then predicted to be the hottest month of August on record in the

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. While the words "climate change" are never spoken in the film, the context of

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frames the confidences shared by the strangers as they are asked about their worries and hopes about the future. The film's official tagline describes it as "a film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety". ''The Hottest August'' premiered at the

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on February 28, 2019, and was subsequently theatrically released on November 15 of the same year. It received critical acclaim.

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* Canadian documentary films American documentary films Documentary films about global warming 2010s American films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub