Directed by Sandra Wollner
Austria, Germany | 2026 | Fiction | 121 min | German, Spanish w/ subtitles
Sponsored by Erika Senft Miller and John Miller
Wednesday, October 21 | 7:00 PM | FH
Everytime contains the shot of the year: a heart-stopping telephoto long take that dreamily fuses Psycho, Rear Window, The Birds, and, tragically, Vertigo. Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner’s astounding third feature won the top prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and is Germany's entry for the Academy Awards. Her brilliant script is adept at talking around the central event that occurs in that sequence, infusing significance and double-meanings into the gorgeous compositions and offhand exchanges and depressurizing at key moments. Shot by cinematographer Gregory Oke, the entire film heavily evokes his already-iconic work on Aftersun, with its radiant scenery, home video clips, and even a strobing club scene, but Oke adds new wrinkles to this signature style—lyrical video game footage, lo-fi drone photography, and doses of surreality. And Birgit Minichmayr gives one of those rare performances where you can see what she’s feeling, whose grief radiates from behind a brittle facade to fill any space. United by tragedy, a mother, her young daughter, and a teenage boy embark on a trip to the Canary Islands for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the coastal sun, past and present gradually overlap. But this evocative description hardly captures the enormity of Everytime, a film rich with mystery that is sure to absolutely overwhelm an audience. ~OO