Friday, June 12
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Burke Theatre at the US Navy Memorial

701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004

for all screenings

Time and Water

Film Languages

Icelandic, English

Director

Sara Dosa

Producers

Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry, Sara Dosa

Facing the loss of his country’s glaciers and the impending death 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.

Tasked with writing a eulogy for Okjökull, the first glacier declared lost to climate change, he reflects on how glaciers preserve deep time within their ice, holding stories that span generations. As he considers what it means to lose both landscape and lineage, he gathers the histories of his grandparents before they, too, disappear.

Directed by Sara Dosa (FIRE OF LOVE), the film weaves together photographs, home movies, myths, songs, and folklore to explore the fragile connections between memory and the natural world—an elegy for what is vanishing and a gesture toward preserving it.

Director, Time and Water

Sara Dosa is an Oscar®-nominated nonfiction filmmaker whose work explores the human relationship with more-than-human nature. Her films FIRE OF LOVE (2022), THE SEER & THE UNSEEN (2019), and THE LAST SEASON (2015) have won numerous awards, including a Peabody and the Directors Guild of America Award, and have received more than 40 nominations, including an Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, and Independent Spirit Award.

Her work has screened at festivals worldwide, including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, and Visions du Réel, and in partnership with institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Louvre. In 2018, Dosa was named to DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” and inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary branch.

She graduated from Wesleyan University with a double major in sociology and anthropology and holds a joint master’s in anthropology and international development studies from the London School of Economics. Dosa lives and works in California.