How do you say goodbye to something you never thought you could lose?
About
Facing the slow, irreversible disappearance of his country’s glaciers and the grief of losing his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason finds himself confronting loss on multiple fronts at once. In Time and Water, the story gathers him in intimate spaces shaped by the weather and the sea—home, archives, and landscapes where ice and memory have always been closely linked. As the natural world changes beyond recognition and personal history fades from the everyday, Andri turns to what he can still collect and protect: words, recordings, letters, and lived moments. The central tension of the film lies in the need to preserve what is slipping away—family stories and the passage of time alongside the shifting reality of water, climate, and the future—while questioning how, or even whether, documentation can truly keep anything from vanishing.