Sara Dosa's 'Time and Water' premieres at Sundance
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- Time and Water premiered at Sundance 2026 and will open at NYC’s Angelika Film Center on May 29 and LA’s Laemmle Royal on June 5.
- Sara Dosa directed the documentary, re‑connected with Andri Snær Magnason after the pandemic, and produced it with Shane Boris and Elijah Stevens.
- Andri Snær Magnason narrates the film, co‑writes it, and its thematic focus draws from his 2019 book On Time and Water.
- National Geographic Documentary Films acquired distribution after Dosa’s team presented archival glacier footage to persuade the distributor.
- Pablo Alvarez Mesa served as director of photography, shooting on digital, Ari, and 16 mm Bolex to capture both sweeping ice landscapes and archival material.
- The film incorporates historic glacier footage from Magnason’s grandparents, using it to explore the concept of saying goodbye to disappearing glaciers amid climate loss.
Why it matters: The film gives audiences a visceral lens on disappearing glaciers, amplifying Andri Snær Magnason’s environmental message and expanding National Geographic’s documentary portfolio, while providing Sara Dosa and her team a high‑profile platform to explore climate grief and reinforcing the role of documentary cinema in shaping public discourse on environmental loss.
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