Time and Water
How do you say goodbye to something you never thought you could lose?
Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.
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Facing the death of his country’s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away — family, memory, time, and water.
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- Release date
- May 29, 2026
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English, Icelandic
- Country
- Iceland, United States of America
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