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Time and Water

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United States/Iceland202693 minEnglish, Icelandic
Time and Water

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.

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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.

How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? That’s the question Magnason grapples with in Sara Dosa’s ambitious new project following her 2022 Sundance Film Festival breakout Fire of Love. Tasked to write the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier to be declared dead due to climate change, Magnason reflects on how glaciers create an archive of deep time within their ice over millions of years. Likening this idea of the depth of time to intergenerational memory, he sets out to pass along the stories of his grandparents for future generations, before they too vanish. Drawing from an evocative mix of photographs, home movies, myths, songs, and folk tales, Time and Water is at once an elegy for what we've lost and an attempt at cinematic time travel to retain it. — BT


Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 29–February 1) and credentialed press and industry (January 28–February 1).

Environmental StoriesNon-English LanguageAll FeaturesInternationalSuitable For All AgesNonfictionClosed CaptionOpen CaptionU.S. Only- less

Credits

  • Director(s)

    Sara Dosa

  • Producers

    Shane Boris

    Elijah Stevens

    Jameka Autry

    Sara Dosa

  • Contact

    Nadia Ahmadein

    Nadia.Ahmadein@natgeo.com

Meet the Artist

Panelist Name

Sara Dosa

    Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated nonfiction filmmaker whose work centers on human relationships with “more-than-human” nature. Her films include Fire of Love (2022), The Seer and the Unseen (2019), and The Last Season (2014).

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