2026, 121 min.

pre-premiere screening

Awards and selections: Cannes Film Festival 2026 – Un Certain Regard Award, Oscars 2027 – German entry for the Best International Feature Film nomination
Director: Sandra Wollner
Cast: Brigit Minichmayr, Lotte Shirin Keiling, Tristan López, Carla Hüttermann
Countries: Austria, Germany

[IN-PERSON SCREENING]

 

— intro befor screening Ekrany: Film & Media

After a family tragedy, a mother, her daughter and the deceased girl’s boyfriend try to learn how to live with her absence.

Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes, Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” is a haunting and formally daring story about grief, memory and life after loss. One year after the tragedy, Ella and her daughter Melli try to return to everyday life, while Lux struggles with guilt. A journey to Tenerife becomes a confrontation with the past, as the boundaries between memory, imagination and reality begin to blur. An extraordinary meditation on memory, in which those we have lost can remain present long after they are gone.

In the media:

«Wollner thus reminds us that our memory is largely made up of recordings of memory.»
— Jakub Popielecki, Filmweb, read the full review

«The essence of cinematic poetry and a moving portrait of loss that leaves a lasting mark on the viewer.»
— Daria Sienkiewicz, Filmweb capsule review

«A meticulously controlled and considered portrait of grief, but also of growing up and childhood. Images saturated with emotions of different tones, with every scene reshaping the structure of the whole. At once a ghostly film and a narcotic trip. The most original film I’ve seen in years.»
— Michał Piepiórka, Filmweb capsule review

Sandra Wollner

Austrian director and screenwriter. She studied documentary filmmaking at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Her feature debut was “The Impossible Picture” (2016), while “The Trouble with Being Born” (2020) earned her the Special Jury Prize in the Encounters section at the Berlinale. “Everytime” won the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes 2026.

Tags: grief, memory, loss, family, reality

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