Cannes Un Certain Regard Winner ‘Everytime’ Bought for North America by 1-2 Special (EXCLUSIVE)

According To The variety Just a week after it won the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard competition, “Everytime” has been acquired for North America. 1-2 Special, the New York indie distributor than was found in early 2025, has picked up Sandra Wollner‘s buzzy title, which landed critical acclaim in the south of France. Featuring cinematography from “Aftersun” cinematographer Gregory Oke, the film follows a mother, young daughter and teenage boy who, united by tragedy, 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 begin to quietly overlap. “Everytime” is Wollner’s third feature film. Her debut, “The Impossible Picture,” was awarded Best Film by the German Film Critics Association Award and the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award at the Göteborg Film Festival. Her second feature, “The Trouble WIth Being Born,” premiered at the 2020 Berlinale where it won the Special Jury Prize in Encounters. In Variety‘s review it said that “Everytime” “felt like the most refined and inventive formal statement in this year’s Un Certain Regard program at Cannes” and that it confirmed Wollner “as a major in the making”. “Everytime” was produced by Lixi Frank and David Bohun of Panama Film, alongside Viktoria Stolpe of The Barricades. It stars Birgit Minichmayr, known for her work in Maren Ade’s “Everyone Else” and Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon.” The deal was negotiated by Charades on behalf of the filmmakers with 1-2 Special, which during Cannes bought the Critics’ Week winner “La Gradiva.