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\n\t\u201cIn Time and Water, renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason is chasing something elusive,\u201d notes a release. \u201cAs the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a 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\u2019 photographs and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family\u2019s story with that of the land around him. The film is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe documentary is produced by Oscar winner Shane Boris (Navalny, Fire of Love), Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry, and Sara Dosa. Executive producers include National Geographic\u2019s Carolyn Bernstein and Tim Horsburgh, along with Jessica Harrop, Caitlin Mae Burke, Krist\u00edn \u00d3lafsd\u00f3ttir, Nina Fialkow, Moudhy Al-Rashid, And Sam Frohman.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tA glacial tongue behind a waterfall in Iceland.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201cTime and Water is a deeply moving and timely cri de coeur that invites audiences to reflect on the ties that bind us to the natural world and to each other,\u201d said Bernstein, EVP of National Geographic Documentary Films. \u201cAs with Fire of Love, Sara and her team\u2019s unique creative vision and spirit of collaboration bring emotional depth, dramatic urgency and spectacular cinematography to a story that speaks to generations past, present and future.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAlong with Time and Water and Fire of Love, Dosa\u2019s directing credits include The Seer and the Unseen, which she also filmed in Iceland.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cTime and Water weaves a story of family and our natural landscapes as an effort to make sense of our profoundly changing world,\u201d Dosa said in a statement. \u201cWe were inspired by how memory is carried across time, through family archives and cultural myths, in the land and the ice itself. Our film reveals how human life is inseparable from nature, bringing the distant future into intimate focus and inviting audiences to imagine, act, and feel a love for a world beyond their own lifetimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMagnason \u2013 a novelist, essayist, playwright and filmmaker\u2013 serves as a co-producer of the documentary.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tAndri Sn\u00e6r Magnason as a boy in a field with glacier terns flying above him.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArchival Materials Courtesy of Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWhen speaking about the climate crisis, a scientist once said to me: \u2018People don\u2019t understand data, they understand stories,\u2019\u201d Magnason commented. \u201cSara is a masterful, poetic storyteller, who has brought my family\u2019s stories and experiences into a larger conversation about time, memory and our relationship to the environment. The film is a love letter to glaciers and generations, an invitation to us all to consider how we listen to the world as it changes around us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTime and Water held its world premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival. The expected Oscar contender has since screened around the world, including at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece, CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York, and Full Frame in Durham, NC. The film will debut on National Geographic and stream on Disney+ later this year.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tDirector Sara Dosa at SXSW 2026 on March 13, 2026 in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRobby Klein\/Getty Images for IMDb<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI make films about how humans seek meaning with the more\u2011than\u2011human natural world \u2014 often through explorations of allegory, metaphor, and myth,\u201d Dosa writes in a director\u2019s statement. \u201cCentral to this work is an inquiry into time: cultural temporalities, geologic scales, and seasonal rhythms that entangle human lives within the living systems around us, revealing our shared ecological kinships.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDosa adds, \u201cIn a time when the violence of the climate crisis ravages the earth, we need stories that can act as maps for our shifting world. Time and Water is a gesture toward such a map, one that traces the ice of Iceland through the human story of one family, anchored by the first-person perspective and expansive archives of celebrated writer Andri Snaer Magnason.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTime and Water is presented by National Geographic Documentary Films and Sandbox Films in association with Ninmah Foundation. The film is a Signpost Pictures Production in association with Compass Films. <\/p>\n
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