‘Time and Water’ Review: Docmaker Sara Dosa Crafts a Heartbreaking Elegy for a Melting World

This poetic documentary from the Oscar-nominated director of 'Fire of Love' makes the climate crisis immediate and intimate.

By Murtada Elfadl

Murtada Elfadl

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Making a film about the climate crisis is a daunting task. How does a filmmaker meet the urgency, enormity and impending doom of this crucial moment in time? Oscar-nominated “Fire of Love” director Sara Dosa goes back to basics: family, love, home. The documentarian partners with Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason to craft a portrait of the melting glaciers of his homeland. Far from being an ecological investigation, “Time and Water” is a moving story about what the Icelandic terrain has meant and still means to Magnason’s family. In telling this one family’s story and examining their connection to the land they were born into, Dosa makes an affecting documentary about a looming danger that many are ignoring.

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