NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILMS DEBUTS TRAILER FOR SUNDANCE STANDOUT TIME AND WATER, FROM THE ACADEMY AWARD(R) NOMINATED DIRECTOR OF FIRE OF LOVE, SARA DOSA

TIME AND WATER Is a Powerful Meditation on Life and Loss as Iceland Faces the Death of its Stunning Glaciers

Featuring Award-Winning Writer Andri Snær Magnason, and Produced by Dosa With Academy Award-winner Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens and Jameka Autry

National Geographic Documentary Films Partners With 1-2 Special and Dogwoof To Release TIME AND WATER in Theaters Globally Starting May 29

(WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 4, 2026) Today, National Geographic Documentary Films debuts the official trailer for the critically acclaimed film TIME AND WATER. The documentary, from Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa ("Fire of Love"), opens in theaters globally starting May 29 and later this year on National Geographic and Disney+.

In TIME AND WATER, renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents' photographs and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family's story with that of the land around him. The film is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

TIME AND WATER world premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews, with critics hailing the film as "the most gorgeous documentary of the year," "magnificent" and "monumental." Most recently, TIME AND WATER screened at the Margaret Mead Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Full Frame, CPH:DOX and Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Upcoming festival screenings include Hot Docs, Millennium Docs Against Gravity and Sheffield DocFest.

"TIME AND WATER is a deeply moving and timely cri de coeur that invites audiences to reflect on the ties that bind us to the natural world and to each other," said Carolyn Bernstein, EVP of National Geographic Documentary Films. "As with 'Fire of Love,' Sara and her team's unique creative vision and spirit of collaboration bring emotional depth, dramatic urgency and spectacular cinematography to a story that speaks to generations past, present and future."

"TIME AND WATER weaves a story of family and our natural landscapes as an effort to make sense of our profoundly changing world," said Dosa. "We were inspired by how memory is carried across time, through family archives and cultural myths, in the land and the ice itself. Our film reveals how human life is inseparable from nature, bringing the distant future into intimate focus and inviting audiences to imagine, act, and feel a love for a world beyond their own lifetimes."

"When speaking about the climate crisis, a scientist once said to me: 'People don't understand data, they understand stories,'" said Magnason. "Sara is a masterful, poetic storyteller, who has brought my family's stories and experiences into a larger conversation about time, memory and our relationship to the environment. The film is a love letter to glaciers and generations, an invitation to us all to consider how we listen to the world as it changes around us."

Sara Dosa is an Oscar(R)-nominated nonfiction filmmaker whose work centers on the human relationship with more-than-human nature. The films she has directed - "Fire of Love" (2022), "The Seer & The Unseen" (2019) and "The Last Season" (2015) - have won numerous awards, including a Peabody and the Directors' Guild of America Award, and were nominated for over 40 awards, including an Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy(R) and an Independent Spirit Award. Dosa's work has been shown at festivals worldwide, including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel, and has screened in partnership with museums such as the MOMA, BAMPFA and the Louvre.

Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary film director. He has written poetry, fiction, plays, nonfiction and science fiction. His book "On Time and Water" has been translated into more than 30 languages. Magnason has received international awards like the Philip K. Dick Honorary Mention for "LoveStar," the Prima Tiziano Terzani in Italy for "On Time and Water," and the Green Earth Book Award for his YA book "The Casket of Time."

TIME AND WATER is presented by National Geographic Documentary Films and Sandbox Films in association with Ninmah Foundation. The film is a Signpost Pictures Production in association with Compass Films. TIME AND WATER is directed, written and produced by Sara Dosa. Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens and Jameka Autry serve as producers. The film is written and edited by Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput, with Mark Harrison also serving as editor. Andri Snær Magnason contributes as a writer and co-producer. The film is scored by Dan Deacon. Heather Millard serves as co-producer. Executive producers include Carolyn Bernstein and Tim Horsburgh with National Geographic Documentary Films, Jessica Harrop and Caitlin Mae Burke with Sandbox Films, Kristín Ólafsdóttir, Nina Fialkow, Moudhy Al-Rashid and Sam Frohman.

Distributed by 1-2 Special in North America and Dogwoof internationally, TIME AND WATER will play in theaters globally beginning May 29. It will air on National Geographic and stream on Disney+ later this year.

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National Geographic Documentary Films

National Geographic Documentary Films, part of a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the National Geographic Society, is committed to bringing the world premium, feature documentaries that cover timely, provocative and globally relevant stories from the very best documentary filmmakers. Its award-winning and critically acclaimed films reach 300 million people worldwide in 180 countries and 33 languages across the global National Geographic channels and direct-to-consumer platforms Disney+ and Hulu. Recent films include The Tale of Silyan, winner of the Cinema and Arts Award for Best Film at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival; Oscar and Peabody nominee Sugarcane; Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award winner Bobi Wine: The People's President; critically acclaimed and festival standout Love+War; Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated Fire of Love; Emmy and Peabody Award winner The Territory; BAFTA nominees The Rescue and Becoming Cousteau; and Oscar- and BAFTA winner Free Solo. For more information, visit films.nationalgeographic.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

Signpost Pictures

Signpost Pictures is a creative nonfiction production company committed to telling stories about how humans make meaning with nonhuman nature, centering the sentience of the Earth and the political, social and geological processes that shape our relationships to it. Through cinematic and innovative forms, Signpost Pictures aims to spark wonderment, conjure connection, provoke critique and inspire new ways of seeing for a changing world. It was founded by Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Elijah Stevens and run with Jameka Autry and Natalia Fuentes - the filmmakers behind Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Peabody, DGA and PGA award-winning and nominated films.

Sandbox Films

Sandbox Films is an award-winning documentary studio that illuminates the art and beauty of scientific inquiry. Sandbox Films provides creative and financial support for artist-driven documentary projects that explore the world (and beyond) with curiosity, creativity and humanity. As a mission-focused, artist-first nonprofit, Sandbox Films is redefining the documentary genre. Founded in 2020, Sandbox Films' slate of critically acclaimed films includes Oscar-nominated Fire of Love; Sundance Jury Prize winners All Light, Everywhere and Nocturnes; Werner Herzog's Fireball, Penny Lane's Confessions of a Good Samaritan and Emmy-winning Fathom; André Is An Idiot, winner of the 2025 US Documentary Audience Award and Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at Sundance and most recently The Lake, winner of the 2026 Sundance U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change. Sandbox Films' documentaries have found extensive audiences via top streaming and distribution partners including Apple TV+, Hulu, National Geographic Documentary Films, NEON and Netflix, and in movie theaters internationally. Based in New York City, Sandbox collaborates with visionary filmmakers, scientists and production partners globally to celebrate a culture of questioning that invites nuance and imagination.

Compass Films

Compass Films is a leading, award-winning film and television production company headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, and co-founded by producers Heather Millard and Þórður Jónsson. Compass Films produces bold, distinctive stories for international audiences from features, shorts and series to animation. Their most recent titles have premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival as well as at the Venice International Film Festival. Driven by a passion for discovering and championing visionary filmmakers, Compass Films is dedicated to developing innovative new IPs while fostering collaborations with partners across the globe. With a keen focus on storytelling that resonates worldwide, Compass Films continues to expand its reach as a creative powerhouse for ambitious filmmakers.