Illuminating a family’s shared memories with Iceland’s first melted glacier caused by climate change, Time and Water portrays a writer trying to preserve his connection to the natural world.
Director: Sara Dosa
Runtime: 90
Fest Year: 2026
“How do you say goodbye to what you thought you could never lose?” A person’s lifetime is finite; one can mourn and celebrate a life. But when the obituary is for a glacier, whose life ended due to humans, there is no comfort. Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason narrates this film, based on his 2019 book On Time and Water. He weaves Icelandic history and folklore with his autobiographical ties to Iceland’s glaciers, inviting us into his life with footage from Iceland’s national archives and his home videos. Landscape is genealogy, and too many ancestors are dying. The glaciers groan. Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa follows Fire of Love (T/F 2022) with this examination of family, ice, and water—and holding on to what we love while considering what we let melt. (LK)