Sara Dosa

Directing

Sara Dosa

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

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 …

Known for

Behind the camera

Fire of Love poster
7.5

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

Fire of Love

2022

Fire of Love poster
7.5

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

Fire of Love

2022

Fire of Love poster
7.5

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

Fire of Love

2022

Time and Water poster
6.3

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

Time and Water poster
6.3

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

Time and Water poster
6.3

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

Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird) poster
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

An ex-guerrilla fighter and a farmer strive to adapt to life after war through competitive rafting in the Colombian Amazon, when political tides change.

River

2026

Ecstasy poster
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 poster
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

ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black poster
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

The Seer and the Unseen poster
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

The Seer and the Unseen poster
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

Audrie & Daisy poster
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

The Last Season poster
6.6

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

No artwork available
NR

Narrative adaptation of the 2022 documentary Fire of Love.

Untitled Fire of Love Narrative Adaptation

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