by Alex Billington
May 5, 2026
Source: YouTube
“To hold ice is to hold the earth’s memories in your hand.” National Geographic has unveiled the official trailer for the documentary film titled Time and Water, the third feature from acclaimed doc filmmaker Sara Dosa and her follow-up to the Oscar nominated Fire of Love film about volcanoes a few years ago. This premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and has been playing at other fests before opening in theaters this May. 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. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs and films as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. It’s “a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.” A beautifully meditative and moving film about how we need to take better care of this planet. Worth a watch.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Sara Dosa’s doc film Time and Water, direct from YouTube:
Via Sundance: “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.” Time and Water is directed by acclaimed doc filmmaker Sara Dosa, director of the films The Seer and the Unseen and Fire of Love previously. Produced by Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry, Sara Dosa. This first premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. National Geographic releases Dosa’s Time and Water in theaters starting May 29th, 2026 this summer. Intrigued?
