EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales powerhouse Charades has taken on international sales rights to Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner’s Everytime, which is set to world premiere in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard strand at the upcoming festival running May 12-23.
The film is a psychological drama about a tragedy that brings a mother, daughter and teenage boy together for a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened, as they explore grief and loss and their ability to blur time and reality.
It stars Birgit Minichmayr, Tristan Lopez, Lotte Shirin Keiling and Carla Hüttermann, and was shot between Berlin, Vienna and Tenerife by BIFA award-winning Aftersun cinematographer Gregory Oke.
Wollner wrote and directed the Austria-Germany co-production, which is produced by Lixi Frank and David Bohun of Austria’s Panama Film and Viktoria Stolpe of Germany’s The Barricades. The latter company was founded by Slope, Wollner, and directors Timm Kröger and Roderick Warich.
Charades reteams with both production companies after handling international sales for Kröger’s The Universal Theory, which debuted in Venice Film Festival’s main competition in 2023.
Wollner’s 2016 debut feature The Impossible Picture won a German Film Critics’ Award while her follow-up film The Trouble With Being Born premiered at Berlin Film Festival in 2020, where it earned a special jury award before going on to win four Austrian Film Awards including best feature film.
Charades head of acquisitions Lucie Desquiens said: “Everytime is both heartbreaking in its emotional intensity and immensely intriguing in its relationship to time and the shifts in tone it adopts. It is the kind of very rare pickup that we are so glad to come across and take on board when completed. We were completely taken and surprised by the film.”
Producers Frank and Stolpe said: “Sandra’s film will linger in the viewer’s mind long after it ends. Her exploration of memory and her gripping way of storytelling are emotional, surprising and hopeful all at once. She draws us into dreamlike realms with a cinematic language that deeply excites us.”
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