'Everytime' Wins Cannes Un Certain Regard, Premieres in North America — SkimNews
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- Sandra Wollner's third feature "Everytime" won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes, the Grand Prize in Sarajevo, and has been selected as Germany's official Oscar submission.
- The film follows a grieving mother (Birgit Minichmayr), her late daughter's boyfriend, and her younger daughter navigating blame and forgiveness after a tragic accident on the eve of a family vacation.
- Gregory Oke ("Aftersun") served as cinematographer, shooting across Berlin and Tenerife, while a teen daughter's Minecraft-style video game provides an eerily smooth visual space where "nothing happens."
- Charades has sold "Everytime" to more than 30 territories worldwide; Eksystent Filmverleih Kijas released it in German cinemas in August, and 1-2 Special is handling North America with a theatrical release planned for early 2027.
- Wollner said the emotional response has been overwhelming — at every screening since Cannes, "at least one person will come up to tell me their story," with strangers sharing personal experiences tied to the film.
- The director framed her themes around "the thin line between remembering something or imagining something," deliberately destabilizing the audience's position as observer so "things feel a bit fragile."
Why it matters: Wollner's third feature now sits in the festival-to-Oscar pipeline as Germany's official submission, with Charades having already locked sales to 30+ territories and 1-2 Special's early 2027 North American theatrical release locked in. That distribution chain — Cannes prize, TIFF/NYFF/Vancouver premieres, then Oscars, then theaters — is a runway few Un Certain Regard winners achieve, positioning the Berlin-based filmmaker as a rising European auteur.
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