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Sara Dosa

Sara Dosa

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Biography

Sara Dosa is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker whose work explores the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world. Her films interweave themes of ecology, cultural memory, and myth to illuminate how people make meaning amidst environmental and existential forces. Dosa’s body of work includes Time and Water (Sundance, 2026), Fire of Love (Sundance, 2022), The Seer & The Unseen (SFFILM, 2019), and The Last Season (SFFILM, 2015). Collectively, her films have been nominated for over 40 awards, including the Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, and Independent Spirit Award, and have received honors such as the Peabody and the Directors Guild of America Award. Her films has screened at leading festivals including Sundance, SXSW, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, and Visions du Réel, as well as in partnership with institutions such as MoMA, BAMPFA, and The Louvre. In 2018, Dosa was named to DOCNYC’s inaugural “40 Under 40” list and inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch. Dosa holds a degree in sociology and anthropology from Wesleyan University and a joint master’s in anthropology and international development from the London School of Economics. She lives and works in California.

Known For

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
6.6

A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes—in moments private and public, funny and poignant—as he pursues the empowering notion that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

2017
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.

Time and Water

2026
Fire of Love
7.5

A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.

Fire of Love

2022
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)
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After losing her friend Yo, Anna builds a detailed 1/3-scale version of her friend's house. It is just big enough for Anna to squeeze into, and inside lives a puppet of Yo. When the pair first met, Yo was 73 and Anna 24.

Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)

2026
Audrie & Daisy
7.1

A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.

Audrie & Daisy

2016
Olmo and the Seagull
7.2

'Olmo and the Seagull' is a poetic and existential dive into an actress's mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most fiery inner demons while trying to rewrite a new philosophy of life, identity and love. Underlying this hybrid film is mounting tension over what is real and what is enacted when one is performing one's own life.

Olmo and the Seagull

2015
The Edge of Democracy
7.7

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

The Edge of Democracy

2019
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black
6.6

This documentary chronicles Johnny Cash's 1970 visit to the White House, where Cash's emerging liberal ideals clashed with Richard Nixon's policies.

ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black

2018
Ecstasy
6.7

Racked with anxiety in the chaotic political landscape of 1990s Brazil, Clara finds solace in starving herself, experiencing both rapture and torture. In this elliptical non-fiction film, anorexia becomes a way for Clara to challenge womanhood and find a place in an uncertain, surreal, and brutal world.

Ecstasy

2020
Survivors
8.0

Survivors presents an intimate portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical turmoil that lies in its wake.

Survivors

2018
The Last Season
5.8

In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually heal their wounds of war. Roger, a self-described 'fall-down drunk' and sniper in Vietnam, and Kouy, a Cambodian refugee who fought the Khmer Rouge, bonded in the bustling tent-city known as Mushroom Camp, which pops up each autumn in the Oregon woods. Their friendship became an adoptive family; according to a Cambodian custom, if you lose your family like Kouy, you must rebuilt it anew. Now, however, this new family could be lost. Roger's health is declining and trauma flashbacks rack his mind; Kouy gently aids his family before the snow falls and the hunting season ends, signaling his time to leave.

The Last Season

2014
The Seer and the Unseen
7.7

A magic realist fable about invisible elves, financial collapse and the surprising power of belief, told through the story of an Icelandic woman - a real life Lorax who speaks on behalf of nature under threat.

The Seer and the Unseen

2019
Jaddoland
N/A

Moving between the playful and the contemplative, explores the meaning of identity and home across three generations of an Iraqi family in Texas.

Jaddoland

2018
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N/A

Narrative adaptation of the 2022 documentary Fire of Love.

Untitled Fire of Love Narrative Adaptation

Band
1.0

Icelandic performance art meets Spinal Tap in this wickedly fun look at women behaving creatively. Three bandmates, Álfrún, Saga and Hrefna, of The Post Performance Blues Band, are tired of playing to audiences of five at their gigs and getting paid in beer. Each of them is staring down 40 and exhausting themselves juggling motherhood and their artistic pursuits. They decide to give themselves one year to either become popstars or quit the band for good. What follows is a make-it-or-break-it story of a band that's not really a band, pursuing a goal that is not actually attainable. Band member and filmmaker Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir puts herself, along with age and gender bias, on stage in this docu-parable about talented but not teenaged women trying to be successful in a youth-obsessed, overnight-success industry. Band allows gifted artists to perform the resilience and sisterhood that truly exists between life's messes, rejections and triumphs.

Band

2022