Sandra Wollner's 'Everytime' Wins Best Film at Sarajevo
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- Sandra Wollner won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Narrative Feature with "Everytime," a unanimous jury choice led by two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson, who cited the film's "mesmerically elastic and transcendental grief-soaked ghost story"
- "Everytime" follows a mother, young daughter and teenage boy on a trip to the Canary Islands for a family holiday that never happened; it previously won at Cannes Un Certain Regard, with Variety's Guy Lodge calling it "poised, haunting" and predicting it will be Wollner's most widely distributed work
- Ana Urushadze won Best Director for Georgian film "Supporting Role," a surreal drama about a movie star soul-searching on Tbilisi's streets that swept two prizes at Rotterdam earlier this year
- Eva Kostić won Best Actress for "17," Kosara Mitić's North Macedonian debut about a teenager processing sexual assault during a class trip, which also earned a Special Award for Promoting Gender Equality
- Adrian Văncică won Best Actor for "You Don't Belong Here," Romanian director Florin Șerban's Locarno Golden Leopard winner about a doctor whose son becomes a murder suspect
- "To Hold a Mountain" by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić won Best Documentary, having previously taken Sundance's World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and the Grand Prix at Poland's Millennium Docs Against Gravity
Why it matters: Wollner's "Everytime" extends a Cannes-to-Sarajevo winning streak and is poised to become her widest release yet, per Variety, solidifying her as a rising European auteur on her third feature. Four of the festival's top prizes went to films already feted at Cannes, Rotterdam, Locarno, and Sundance, underscoring how heavily this year's Sarajevo slate drew on titles with prior festival momentum.
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