Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time and water.

COMING SOON

STORY 

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs, and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. From Academy Award®-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

FILMMAKER

Sara Dosa is an Oscar®-nominated nonfiction filmmaker whose work centers on the human relationship with more-than-human nature. The films she has directed, “Fire of Love” (2022), “The Seer & The Unseen” (2019) and “The Last Season” (2015), have won numerous awards, including a Peabody and the Directors’ Guild of America Award, and were nominated for over 40 awards, including an Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award. Dosa’s work has been shown at festivals worldwide, including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel, and has screened in partnership with museums such as the MOMA, BAMPFA and the Louvre. In 2018, Dosa was named to the inaugural class of DOCNYC’s “40 under 40” and inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures’ documentary branch. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in sociology and anthropology and has a joint master’s in anthropology and international development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dosa lives and works in California.

REVIEWS

“A magnificent new documentary… A Poetic and Haunting Elegy for a Glacier” - Grade A, Critic’s Pick - IndieWire

“A fascination with the Earth at its most violent and unpredictable” - Screen International

“Dazzling… Strikingly and cinematically explores the life and death of landscapes and human mortality alike.” - POV Magazine

“A bittersweet gnawing at the heart that will resonate with most everybody… Sara Dosa is a master of tone in the documentary space” - The Film Stage

“a comforting, ravishing, poignant examination of what we define as the wonders of our lives”. - Awards Watch

“a stirring record of human hopes and regrets.”- RogerEbert.com

“Poetic, stirring documentaries contending with the slippery passage of time and a personal look at familial bonds and carrying values to the next generation.” - The Film Stage

“A deeply personal, monumental documentary... A powerful reminder to look backward and forward, and to find where the two meet” - The Next Best Picture

“sweeping, heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measure” - Salt Lake City Weekly

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