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EXCLUSIVE: Iceland, according to legend, was fixed its sanction by Norse explorers who encountered nan country’s stiff scenery much than a millennia ago. But pinch ambiance alteration pouring its glaciers, what is to go of Iceland’s identity? What is to go of nan satellite arsenic a whole?
These are among nan urgent themes of Time and Water, nan caller documentary from Oscar nominee Sara Dosa (Fire of Love). Her movie is inspired by nan book On Time and Water by celebrated Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, who serves arsenic narrator of nan film. In 2019, Magnason wrote an obituary for Okjökull, nan first glacier successful Iceland to beryllium declared moribund aft it mislaid overmuch of its thickness and aboveground area.
National Geographic is partnering pinch 1-2 Special and Dogwoof to merchandise Time and Water successful theaters globally opening May 29. Watch nan exclusive trailer for nan movie above.
“In Time and Water, renowned Icelandic writer and writer Andri Snær Magnason is chasing thing elusive,” notes a release. “As nan glacial crystal of his homeland melts, he constructs a clip capsule to clasp onto this infinitesimal and nonstop it to nan future, earlier everything he loves slips away. Using his ain collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs and films, arsenic good arsenic accepted songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s communicative pinch that of nan onshore astir him. The movie is simply a cosmopolitan reflection connected nan powerfulness of location and what it intends to beryllium live amid profound epochal change.”
The documentary is produced by Oscar victor Shane Boris (Navalny, Fire of Love), Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry, and Sara Dosa. Executive producers see National Geographic’s Carolyn Bernstein and Tim Horsburgh, on pinch Jessica Harrop, Caitlin Mae Burke, Kristín Ólafsdóttir, Nina Fialkow, Moudhy Al-Rashid, And Sam Frohman.
“Time and Water is simply a profoundly moving and timely cri de coeur that invites audiences to bespeak connected nan ties that hindrance america to nan earthy world and to each other,” said Bernstein, EVP of National Geographic Documentary Films. “As pinch Fire of Love, Sara and her team’s unsocial imaginative imagination and tone of collaboration bring affectional depth, melodramatic urgency and spectacular cinematography to a communicative that speaks to generations past, coming and future.”
Along pinch Time and Water and Fire of Love, Dosa’s directing credits see The Seer and nan Unseen, which she besides filmed successful Iceland.
“Time and Water weaves a communicative of family and our earthy landscapes arsenic an effort to make consciousness of our profoundly changing world,” Dosa said successful a statement. “We were inspired by really representation is carried crossed time, done family archives and taste myths, successful nan onshore and nan crystal itself. Our movie reveals really quality life is inseparable from nature, bringing nan distant early into friendly attraction and inviting audiences to imagine, act, and consciousness a emotion for a world beyond their ain lifetimes.”
Magnason – a novelist, essayist, playwright and filmmaker– serves arsenic a co-producer of nan documentary.
“When speaking astir nan ambiance crisis, a intelligence erstwhile said to me: ‘People don’t understand data, they understand stories,’” Magnason commented. “Sara is simply a masterful, poetic storyteller, who has brought my family’s stories and experiences into a larger speech astir time, representation and our narration to nan environment. The movie is simply a emotion missive to glaciers and generations, an invitation to america each to see really we perceive to nan world arsenic it changes astir us.”
Time and Water held its world premiere successful January astatine nan Sundance Film Festival. The expected Oscar contender has since screened astir nan world, including astatine nan Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival successful Greece, CPH:DOX successful Copenhagen, nan San Francisco International Film Festival, nan Margaret Mead Film Festival successful New York, and Full Frame successful Durham, NC. The movie will debut connected National Geographic and watercourse connected Disney+ later this year.
“I make films astir really humans activity meaning pinch nan more‑than‑human earthy world — often done explorations of allegory, metaphor, and myth,” Dosa writes successful a director’s statement. “Central to this activity is an enquiry into time: taste temporalities, geologic scales, and seasonal rhythms that entangle quality lives wrong nan surviving systems astir us, revealing our shared ecological kinships.”
Dosa adds, “In a clip erstwhile nan unit of nan ambiance situation ravages nan earth, we request stories that tin enactment arsenic maps for our shifting world. Time and Water is simply a motion toward specified a map, 1 that traces nan crystal of Iceland done nan quality communicative of 1 family, anchored by nan first-person position and expansive archives of celebrated writer Andri Snaer Magnason.”
Time and Water is presented by National Geographic Documentary Films and Sandbox Films successful relation pinch Ninmah Foundation. The movie is simply a Signpost Pictures Production successful relation pinch Compass Films.
Watch nan trailer above.
