What does it mean to love a place that is changing before your eyes?
That question sits at the heart of TIME AND WATER, a beautiful and deeply moving new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa.
The film follows Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason as he gathers family archives, photographs, folktales, songs, and the glacial landscapes of his homeland into a kind of time capsule. What begins as a portrait of a changing natural world becomes something even more intimate: a meditation on memory, family, grief, inheritance, and the places that shape us.
Moving between Iceland’s melting glaciers and the story of Andri’s grandparents, TIME AND WATER finds a quiet, deeply human connection between the land we come from and the people we carry with us.
It is about climate change, yes. But it is also about home. It is about what we try to hold on to, what inevitably slips away, and the fragile beauty of sending something meaningful into the future.
In our conversation, we talk about the film’s emotional power, its cinematic language, and the way Sara Dosa invites us to sit with uncertainty — not as despair, but as a reminder that the future is still being shaped.
This is a conversation about what we remember, what we lose, and what we still have time to protect.
Watch the full conversation with director Sara Dosa, on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE.
