Sandra Wollner's 'Everytime' Explores Grief and Reality at Cannes 2026

Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner presents her latest feature 'Everytime' in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The film follows a overwhelmed mother who loses one of her two daughters in a tragic accident, then enters a strange new world where boundaries between past and present, life and death blur. Wollner uses a camera guided by inner sensations and editing rhythm from external life to create a carefully strange film about familiar emotions. The story is set in Berlin and partly on Tenerife, inspired by people Wollner met in her own life. The film shifts from a realistic first half to a more surreal, almost science-fiction-like second half, where characters move through an unusual space and logic breaks down. Wollner describes the camera as representing a detached entity—existence or God—that does not distinguish between a virtual tree, a real leaf, or the death of a young person. She previously directed 'The Trouble With Being Born', about a child sex robot. 'Everytime' was released on May 19, 2026, and is produced by TheBarricades and PanamaFilm.