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Airpocalypse: Surviving the World's Most Polluted City
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Airpocalypse: Surviving the World's Most Polluted City

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Every winter, Delhi disappears into its own air. The film returns to November 2019, when smog thick enough to close schools, divert flights, and flood hospitals with respiratory cases settled over the Indian capital, and asks whether the city can avoid a repeat as the next cold season approaches. Cameras follow residents navigating daily life behind masks and air purifiers, doctors describing the surge in lung and heart cases they treat each winter, and officials explaining the mix of crop burning, vehicle exhaust, construction dust, and geography that traps pollution over the city. The documentary lays out the scale of the problem in plain terms: a metropolis of over twenty million people where breathing itself has become a health risk, and where stopgap measures like school closures and traffic restrictions have done little to fix the underlying causes. It closes without a clean resolution, tracking the anxious wait each year for wind, rain, or policy to finally break the cycle.