SCREEN | Glaciers and Memories – 'Time and Water' x DOXA 2026

"I cannot send you a glacier."

DOXA Documentary Film Festival

Oscar-nominated Fire of Love director Sara Dosa explores the environmental impact of melting glaciers through renowned, award-winning Icelandic poet/author Andri Snær Magnason's comprehensive family history in their documentary, Time and Water (see also his book, On Time and Water). It's an elegiac portrait of time passing told side-by-side with the Earth's "memories" as climate change ravages the glacial natural wonders.

Magnason tells audiences about his family's long ties in Iceland as a cinematic time capsule for future generations to hold onto before his homeland is forever changed by rising temperatures. She employs an impressive collection of personal archival material, from his grandparents' photographs, home videos, and traditional Icelandic folktales. Their documentary acts as a universal reflection on the power of home while being alive during a time of profound epochal change.

Dosa and Magnason's poignant film captures our moment in time wondrously. Time and Water is a moving complement to Fire of Love, as both fondly recall our past lives through mixed multimedia, old footage, narration, and the environment as it was. It poetically brings science and nature to a place of intergenerational memories of loss reflected in the likely irrevocable damage we have done to the planet. This is all seen in the downgraded status of the melting Okjökull Glacier, sadly known as "the Icelandic glacier that disappeared," now forever commemorated with a cautionary plaque.

Time and Water screened at the closing gala of the 2026 DOXA Documentary Film Festival as part of the Galas + Spotlights program at the SFU Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema.


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