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Anyone who saw Sandra Wollner’s perversely creepy previous film, “The Trouble with Being Born,” might be left having no idea what to expect from her follow-up. That film was built around a child-sized android cast in resemblance to her master’s missing daughter — and it’s more than implied he’s sexually assaulting the girl, too.
Disturbing as it was, “The Trouble with Being Born” also announced Wollner’s aptitude for capturing grief from peculiar, underseen angles. And so her next movie, “Everytime,” while more generously empathetic, also takes on loss from a mind-bending perspective we’re not going to spoil. Since winning in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, this German entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar has bewitched festivalgoers from Toronto to New York. IndieWire shares the exclusive teaser below.
“Everytime” also just received Gotham Award nominations for Best International Feature, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Here, following a tragedy in Berlin, a mother, Ella (Birgit Minichmayr), her youngest daughter, Melli (Lotte Shirin Keiling), and her older daughter’s former boyfriend, Lux (Tristán López), take what turns out to be a profound holiday to the Spanish island of Tenerife — one where the environment appears to convene and reshape itself around their shared, unimaginable loss.
“Everytime” will play for a one-week Oscar-qualifying run at New York City’s Lincoln Center starting November 6, with the full theatrical date following February 12, 2027. 1-2 Special distributes the film after purchasing “Everytime” out of Cannes. The New York-based distributor also has Marine Atlan’s Cannes-winning “La Gradiva,” entering theaters in December.
“Its ineffable power belongs to how matter-of-factly Wollner tears apart the fabric of her film’s reality at the same time as she threads it together,” Indiewire’s David Ehrlich wrote of “Everytime” in his Grade A review.
Watch the teaser for “Everytime” below.
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