[MUSIC BEGINS]
[BIRDS SQUAWK]
A flat shoreline with many birds in the water and a wooden building on land.
A rocky shoreline at sunset or sunrise, the sky a brilliant orange, with a few birds flying in the air.
Archival footage of the sun partway up the sky above water, reflecting a long, bright streak through the water.
ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON (in voiceover): I wanted to see how our lives move in rhymes.
The sun peeks out over a snow-capped mountain, illuminating the clouds.
Two more slightly different views of the sun peeking out over mountains, with the clouds and sky turning white and orange.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): Funerals live in sunsets...
A flat, snow-capped mountain with long, horizontal strips of cloud above it.
Black and white footage of two children blowing out candles on a birthday cake held out to them by an adult.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): Birthdays in sunrises...
Two older people blow out wavy candles on a cake held out to them by another older person, as a child looks on. The table is strewn with mostly empty cups and a mostly empty liter bottle of Coca-Cola. They laugh after they blow out the candles.
Archival footage of couples in fancy dress dancing on a party dance floor as guests try to grab the hat off one another, laughing.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): Weddings live in fellow creatures.
A flock of squawking birds fly about, some landing on a wooden post, with a horizontally large building and mountains behind them.
Two dogs, one black and one white and speckled, roughhouse in a park.
Archival footage of an adult making an adjustment to the top of a tall cake beside two children.
Archival footage of a group of children swimming in a river flanked by green grass, with low mountains in the background.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): Our summer migrations live in streams.
A person sits inside of a tent in the foreground, with a long river and mountains covered in green in the background.
Water running in lines through a low valley.
Three people work to clear grass with scythes in a floodplain, in near-unison.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): Harvests in the floodplains.
Close-up on a person in a gingham shirt standing in knee-deep water using a scythe to clear grass.
Puffins perch in openings in a rock wall covered in green plants and flowers.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): All this time...
Close-up on three puffins standing on grass, with more puffins in the background.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): ...nature keeps records all around us.
Close-up on a puffin’s face.
A waterfall surrounded by rock, with a rainbow formed at the base of the waterfall.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): In these cycles of time and water, I feel a direct connection to all ancestors...
Two swans swim in a lake surrounded by green land, with mountains in the background.
MAGNASON (in voiceover): ...and to all descendants.
Cut to black.
Friday, May 1, 2026
7 pm | LeFrak Theater
New York Premiere
Director in Attendance: Sara Dosa
2026 | 90 min | USA, Iceland
Entrusted with writing a eulogy for Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, Andri Snær Magnason embarks on a profound exploration of environmental love and mourning. Academy Award nominee Sara Dosa crafts an intimate, transcendent meditation on loss, memory, and the deep time of the natural world, set against Iceland’s sweeping landscapes and layers of cultural history. Poetic and urgent, this film uses powerful cinematic language to confront the climate crisis on a human scale.
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