TIME & WATER

Climate Change Initiative-Special Filmmaker Event! Free Admission! Icelandic writer and filmmaker Andri Snær Magnason returns to Chautauqua Cinema with his new film Time & Water, a vibrant elegy which preserves vanishing glaciers, departed grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule. This is a beautiful film. It's very moving and evocative. -Claudia Puig, FilmWeek LAist Breathtaking! -Tim Cogshell, FilmWeek LAist Andri will host discussion to follow the screening. (NR, 93m) A National Geographic documentary film inspired by Andri Snær Magnason's 2019 non-fiction On Time and Water, directed by Sara Dosa, premiered at the Sundance Festival on 27th January 2026. 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. Writer, filmmaker, and poet Andri Magason is one of Iceland's leading creative forces who has twice met with Chautauqua Travels groups in Reykjavik, and visited Chautauqua Institution in 2023.