EVERYTIME
Special Features: Special Presentation | 2027 Oscar® Selection, Germany
Six years after the festival tour for her award-winning feature THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN was truncated by the COVID pandemic, filmmaker Sandra Wollner returns unimpeded with her third feature, EVERYTIME, which won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. A quietly exceptional Birgit Minichmayr stars as Ella, a woman who becomes the emotional anchor for her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend in the wake of an unimaginable event. As all three try to navigate an aching absence that echoes everywhere they turn, Ella alights on an impulsive trip to recreate a previously abandoned family vacation, hoping to shake them out of the memories, home videos and video games they have all withdrawn to in order to numb their pain. On the sunny beaches of Tenerife, each of the trio’s preferred way of retreating into the past begins to merge with the literal resort retreat to transform into a surreal new present around them. Wollner’s direction creates a world tinged with the languid magic of summer heat as Gregory Oke (AFTERSUN) establishes himself as the preeminent cinematographer for capturing the liminality hidden within summer holidays. Offering no easy explanations, EVERYTIME is a gentle exploration of grief that will similarly linger in your mind long after the tragedy is over. –Eli Prysant
Official Selection, 2026 AFI FEST, Toronto and New York film festivals. DIR/SCR Sandra Wollner; PROD Lixi Frank, Viktoria Stolpe, David Bohun. Germany/Austria, 2026, color, 124 min. In German with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 124 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, December 05, 2026
Genre: Drama
