# A Letter to the Future: Oscar-Nominated Director Sara Dosa on Time and Water

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Podcast: [INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE: Oscar Inside & Indie Cinema Discussions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-the-arthouse-oscar-inside-indie-cinema-discussions-7398961)
Published: 2026-05-20T16:25:00+00:00
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In Time and Water, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sara Dosa turns Iceland’s disappearing glaciers, a family’s archive, and one man’s fading memory into a cinematic letter to the future. Dosa, the director of Fire of Love, joins Inside the Arthouse to discuss her new documentary from National Geographic Documentary Films. The film follows Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason as he gathers photographs, home movies, folk songs, and the melting ice of his homeland into a time capsule for what may soon be lost. In this conversation, Dosa reflects on grief as a cinematic form, shooting on 16mm in a digital age, the ethics of filming dementia without reducing a human life to metaphor, and why Time and Water does not land on simple hope or despair — but on uncertainty, and the responsibility that comes with it. Time and Water premiered at Sundance 2026 and is presented by National Geographic Documentary Films and Sandbox Films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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