Time and Water
2026

Time and Water

You’ll come to mourn the loss of a glacier every bit as much as a family member when you melt into Sara Dosa’s astonishing new film. As narrated by the Icelandic poet Andri Snær Magnason, who pours his family’s soul into it, it’s a spellbinding elegy for a fast-vanishing majesty.

Director

Sara Dosa

Runtime

92 Minutes

Country

Iceland, United States

Classification

All Ages

“To hold an ice core is to hold the earth’s memories in your hand.” So says Icelandic poet, playwright, author and filmmaker Andri Snær Magnason, the human subject of Fire of Love (2022) director Sara Dosa’s breathtaking documentary. He had the unenviable task of writing funeral rites for the first of Iceland’s world-famous glaciers to melt into stony silence. His grandparents, Hulda and Árni, were intrepid glaciologists, among the first to explore the nation’s icy wealth, even spending their honeymoon on the behemoth Vatnajökull. Magnason shares their incredible archival footage with Oscar-nominee Dosa, amplified by stunning new footage captured by cinematographer Pablo Álvarez-Mesa. As our trusty guide, the poet’s richly sonorous voice draws a glimmering line from glaciers’ integral place in Norse creation myths, through ancient songlines to his children and on to a desolate timeline where humanity’s greed might yet see the annihilation of these majestic titans alongside the chattering puffin colonies that cling to the nation’s cragged cliffs. Far from despairing, this Sundance highlight is a clarion call reminding us all that we have the power to reshape the future, much like the glaciers carve their path through mountains.

“Dosa turns the climate crisis into something heartbreakingly tangible … a profoundly beautiful elegy for a world slipping away before our eyes.”

Variety

“By reframing climate change as a crisis of memory, Dosa achieves what many climate documentaries struggle to accomplish. This is not a eulogy for a lost world, but a reminder of our responsibility to remember it.”

Little White Lies

“A poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery.”

IndieWire

Sundance

CPH:DOX

Sydney

Melbourne

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Film Credits

Director

Sara Dosa

Year

2026

Country

Iceland & United States

Language

English & Icelandic

Subtitles

English

Type

Feature Documentary

Program Strand

Change Award

Producer

Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry & Sara Dosa

Writer

Sara Dosa, Jocelyne Chaput, Erin Casper & Andri Snær

Cinematographer

Pablo Álvarez-Mesa

Editor

Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput & Mark Harrison

Film Source

Madman Entertainment

Genre

Documentary, Environmental, Experimental & Nature

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