National Geographic debuted the official trailer for Time and Water, a documentary directed by Sara Dosa, the Academy Award-nominated director of Fire of Love, featuring Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason .
Time and Water world premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, then went on to screen at the Margaret Mead Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Full Frame, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, and Sheffield DocFest.
The documentary opens in theaters globally starting May 29 and later this year on National Geographic and Disney+.
In Time and Water, renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. 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. The film is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.
“Time and Water weaves a story of family and our natural landscapes as an effort to make sense of our profoundly changing world,” said Dosa. “We were inspired by how memory is carried across time, through family archives and cultural myths, in the land and the ice itself. Our film reveals how human life is inseparable from nature, bringing the distant future into intimate focus and inviting audiences to imagine, act, and feel a love for a world beyond their own lifetimes.”
“When speaking about the climate crisis, a scientist once said to me: ‘People don’t understand data, they understand stories,’” said Magnason. “Sara is a masterful, poetic storyteller, who has brought my family’s stories and experiences into a larger conversation about time, memory, and our relationship to the environment. The film is a love letter to glaciers and generations, an invitation to us all to consider how we listen to the world as it changes around us.”
Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated nonfiction filmmaker whose work centers on the human relationship with more-than-human nature. She has directed – “Fire of Love” (2022), “The Seer & The Unseen” (2019) and “The Last Season” (2015).
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary film director. He has written poetry, fiction, plays, nonfiction, and science fiction. His book “On Time and Water” has been translated into more than 30 languages. Magnason has received international awards like the Philip K. Dick Honorary Mention for “LoveStar,” the Prima Tiziano Terzani in Italy for “On Time and Water,” and the Green Earth Book Award for his YA book “The Casket of Time.”
Watch the official trailer for Time and Water above.
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