Just a week after winning the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard competition, Everytime has been acquired for North America.
New York indie distribution company 1-2 Special, founded in early 2025, has picked up Sandra Wallner’s critically acclaimed novel from the south of France.
Shot by Aftersun cinematographer Gregory Oak, the film follows a mother, her young daughter, and a teenage boy brought together by tragedy as they embark on a trip to the Canary Islands for a family vacation that never happened. Under the glow of the coastal sun, past and present begin to quietly overlap.
Everytime is Wollner’s third feature film. Her debut film The Impossible Picture won the German Film Critics Association Award and the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award for Best Film at the Gothenburg Film Festival. Her second feature, The Trouble With Being Born, premiered at the 2020 Berlinale and won the Special Jury Prize in the Encounters category.
A Variety magazine review said that “Everytime” “felt like the most sophisticated, inventive, formal statement of this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard program” and confirmed that Wallner was “a bright future.”
“Everytime” was produced by Panama Film’s Rixie Frank and David Bohun in collaboration with Victoria Stolpe of The Barricades. The film stars Birgit Minichmeyer, known for her roles in Maren Ade’s “Everyone Else” and Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon.”
The deal was negotiated by Charade on behalf of the filmmaker with One Two Special, which acquired the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week winner La Gradiva.
