Time and Water
| Time and Water | |
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| Directed by | Sara Dosa |
| Produced by | Jameka Autry Shane Boris Sara Dosa Elijah Stevens |
| Cinematography | Pablo Alvarez-Mesa |
| Edited by | Erin Casper Jocelyne Chaput Mark Harrison |
| Music by | Dan Deacon |
Production companies | Sandbox Films Signpost Pictures |
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Running time | 93 minutes[1] |
| Countries | Iceland United States |
| Languages | Icelandic English |
| Box office | $114,074[2][3] |
Time and Water is a 2026 documentary film which explores life and work of Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason. It is produced and directed by Sara Dosa.[4] The film premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.[5]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 42 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Visually astounding and hands-off in its observation of a family and their environment, Time and Water is an intimate documentary with an epic scope."[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[7]
Zachary Lee of RogerEbert.com gave the film three and a half out of four stars and wrote, "Time and Water is very much a project trying to capture memory, time, and history, even as it melts before your eyes. I shudder to think that after the film's premiere at Sundance, what the condition of Iceland's glaciers may look like now."[8]
Murtada Elfadl of Variety wrote, "With Time and Water, Dosa turns the climate crisis into something heartbreakingly tangible. She and her collaborators create not just an urgent documentary, but a profoundly beautiful elegy for a world slipping away before our eyes."[9]
In a Critics' Pick review for IndieWire, Marya E. Gates noted the film's unique mixture of autobiography and nature doc, calling it "a poetic musing on intergenerational memory, a whimsical, yet staunchly political elegy for the glaciers, and a mournful look at the Earth in all her majesty and mystery."[10]
References
- ↑ "Time and Water (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. May 6, 2026. Retrieved May 11, 2026.
- ↑ "Time and Water". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
- ↑ "Time and Water". The Numbers. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
- ↑ Carey, Matthew (December 11, 2025). "Documentary Super Directors, Super Producers Book Passage To Final Sundance In Park City; Brittney Griner, Billie Jean King Also Courted By Festival".
- ↑ "Sundance 2026 list: Here's all the movies that will screen at the festival's last Utah run — including 54 you can stream at home". The Salt Lake Tribune.
- ↑ "Time and Water". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 1, 2026.
- ↑ "Time and Water". Metacritic. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
- ↑ Lee, Zachary (May 29, 2026). "Time and Water". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved May 29, 2026.
- ↑ Elfadl, Murtada (May 29, 2026). "'Time and Water' Review: Docmaker Sara Dosa Crafts a Heartbreaking Elegy for a Melting World". Variety. Retrieved May 29, 2026.
- ↑ Gates, Marya E. (2026-05-28). "'Time and Water' Review: A Poetic and Haunting Elegy for a Glacier". IndieWire. Retrieved 2026-05-29.