Jacqueline Zünd Explores Climate Inequality in ‘Heat,’ Premiering at Visions du Réel: ‘I Found Dystopia in Real Life’

“Heat is like a death sentence.” The line, spoken by a Kuwait-based meteorologist in Jacqueline Zünd’s “Heat,” anchors a film that examines global warming not through explanation but through what the Swiss filmmaker describes as “a sensory experience.” Premiering in the main competition at Visions du Réel, Switzerland’s leading documentary film festival, “Heat” immerses the […]

By Leo Barraclough