Everytime

A film by Sandra Wollner. From 6 August at the fsk. With Q&A on 8 August. In German with English subtitles.

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The last pho­to Jessie took shows the sun over Berlin. It hangs the­re as if not­hing had hap­pen­ed. But Ella has lost her daugh­ter. All she has left is Jessie’s litt­le sis­ter and the com­pli­ca­ted rela­ti­onship with the boy ever­yo­ne bla­mes. The odd trio find them­sel­ves on a fami­ly holi­day that never real­ly was. Under the shim­me­ring sun of Tenerife, memo­ry and the pre­sent beco­me inex­tri­ca­bly intert­wi­ned. The ghosts are everywhere.

“In EVERYTIME, we fol­low a mother who has lost her daugh­ter, the youn­ger sis­ter who has her own uni­que way of coping, and a boy whom ever­yo­ne bla­mes.
Whilst the sun hangs the­re as if not­hing had hap­pen­ed, we watch them as they try to do the right thing. They cling to a fra­gi­le rou­ti­ne, a rehe­ar­sed, prag­ma­tic way of coping with ever­y­day life that does litt­le to con­ce­al the impos­si­ble, unful­fillable wish under­ly­ing it: to somehow return to a time when ‘none of this ever hap­pen­ed’. But our rea­li­ty isn’t
made for that. That’s sim­ply not how the world works.
But then – in this film, it does hap­pen after all, and the impos­si­ble beco­mes pos­si­ble. You turn a cor­ner and step into a sce­ne, and sud­den­ly the world seems to fold in on its­elf and the sun final­ly has the decen­cy to stand still.
And for a moment, or per­haps even fore­ver, ever­y­thing seems to be all right again.
When you enga­ge with such impos­si­bi­li­ties, and tru­ly allow them to hap­pen, tru­ly immer­se yours­elf in them, it seems to me that they reve­al some­thing about the natu­re of human suf­fe­ring, about our lon­gings and per­haps about our very exis­tence. Things that are other­wi­se only pos­si­ble in dreams, we can expe­ri­ence in the cine­ma. That is what cine­ma is for.” Sandra Wollner

Credits:

DE/AT 2026, 123 mins, German with English sub­tit­les,
Director: Sandra Wollner
Cinematography: Gregory Oke
Starring: Birgit Minichmayr, Lotte Shirin Keiling, Tristán López, Carla Hüttermann, Naomi Elia Richard

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