Winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes, Sandra Wollner's Everytime follows a family as they finally take the holiday tragedy once denied them. Beneath Tenerife's subtropical sun, past and present begin to overlap in a surprising exploration of grief, memory and forgiveness.

2026
Everytime
Everytime
Director
Runtime
123 Minutes
Country
Austria, Germany
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes, Sandra Wollner's Everytime transforms a drama of family grief into a work of sublime imaginative scope. A year after a shocking tragedy, Ella (Birgit Minichmayr), her young daughter Melli (Lotte Shirin Keiling) and teenager Lux (Tristan Lopez) finally take the family holiday they never had in Tenerife. Under the island's subtropical sun, past and present begin to overlap as blame and forgiveness challenge the memories of the bereaved. Gently playing with time and perspective, Wollner reveals new emotional truths without ever diminishing the raw immediacy of loss. Like a great novel, Everytime rewards close attention with ever-deepening emotional and philosophical insight, while its visual language reaches heights only the best cinema can.
"Might be the best in Cannes this year … it has stayed in my bloodstream."
The Film Stage
"An exceptionally well-calibrated study of an untimely death and its aftermath."
Screen Daily
Cannes – Un Certain Regard Prize
Sydney
Melbourne
Film Credits
Director
Sandra Wollner
Year
2026
Country
Austria & Germany
Language
German & Spanish
Subtitles
English
Type
Feature Fiction
Program Strand
World Cinema
Producer
Lixi Frank, Viktoria Stolpe & David Bohun
Writer
Sandra Wollner
Cinematographer
Gregory Oke
Editor
Hannes Bruun
Cast
Birgit Minichmayr, Tristan Lopez, Lotte Shirin Keiling, Carla Hüttermann & Naomi Elia Richard
Music
David Schweighart
Film Source
Charades
Genre
Cinephile, Drama, Family & Psychological
