Everytime

Sandra Wollner's The Trouble with Being Born won a Special Jury Prize at the Berlinale in 2020 and then spent the year being argued about; Everytime, which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2026, is her first feature since. It is an Austrian-German production shot partly on Tenerife, and it is a calmer film than its predecessor without being a warmer one.

Birgit Minichmayr plays a mother thrown together with her daughter and a teenage boy in the aftermath of a death, the three of them travelling to the Canaries for a holiday that was planned and never taken. Wollner works in long, sun-flattened compositions and lets the timeline slide, so that what is being remembered and what is being lived arrive in the same register. The Spanish light does the work that her earlier film got from interiors.

Cannes juries have a habit of using Un Certain Regard to mark directors they expect to see in the main competition later, and the prize here was read that way. Reviewers described a film about blame and forgiveness that declines to distribute either, and Minichmayr — one of the finest German-language stage actors of her generation — anchors it without ever asking to be liked.