Time and Water
Writer Andri Snær Magnason reckons with the death of Okjökull, the first glacier lost to climate change, as Sara Dosa’s striking documentary blends vanishing ice, family memory, and urgent witness.
Description
Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason faces an unthinkable task: composing the eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier declared dead due to climate change. In Sara Dosa’s (Fire of Love, Festival 2022) luminous documentary, Magnason confronts the disappearance of his country’s ice while preserving the stories of his grandparents, intertwining personal history with vanishing landscapes. Drawing from home movies, photographs, songs, and folklore, Dosa constructs an immersive portrait of loss and continuity. Moving seamlessly between intimate recollections and the monumental sweep of glaciers over millennia, Time and Water is a visually striking meditation on vulnerability, charting the fragility of the natural world and the urgent need to bear witness before vital elements of it disappear. —Jessie Fairbanks
Biographies
Sara Dosa’s directing debut, The Last Season, world premiered at the 2014 SFFILM Festival, where it captured the Best Bay Area Documentary Feature Golden Gate Award. It went on to receive a Truer Than Fiction Film Independent Spirit Award nomination. Her second feature, The Seer and the Unseen, debuted at the 2019 Festival, where Dosa won a second Bay Area Documentary Feature Golden Gate Award. She received a Best Documentary Oscar® nomination for her next documentary Fire of Love (Festival 2022).
