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Time and Water
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySara Dosa
Produced byJameka Autry
Shane Boris
Sara Dosa
Elijah Stevens
CinematographyPablo Alvarez-Mesa
Edited byErin Casper
Jocelyne Chaput
Mark Harrison
Music byDan Deacon
Production
companies
Sandbox Films
Signpost Pictures
Distributed by
Release dates
  • January 27, 2026 (2026-01-27) (Sundance)
  • May 29, 2026 (2026-05-29) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes[1]
CountriesIceland
United States
LanguagesIcelandic
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

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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

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  1. "Time and Water (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. May 6, 2026. Retrieved May 11, 2026.
  2. "Time and Water". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
  3. "Time and Water". The Numbers. Retrieved August 8, 2026.
  4. 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".
  5. "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.
  6. "Time and Water". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 1, 2026.
  7. "Time and Water". Metacritic. Retrieved June 17, 2026.
  8. Lee, Zachary (May 29, 2026). "Time and Water". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved May 29, 2026.
  9. 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.
  10. Gates, Marya E. (2026-05-28). "'Time and Water' Review: A Poetic and Haunting Elegy for a Glacier". IndieWire. Retrieved 2026-05-29.
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