Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner’s Everytime has won the Un Certain Regard prize at a closing ceremony in Cannes on Friday (May 22).
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.
Wollner wrote and directed the Austria-Germany co-production, which is produced by Austria’s Panama Film and Viktoria Stolpe of Germany’s The Barricades. Charades handles international sales.
The jury prize went to Abinash Bikram Shah’s debut feature Elephants In The Fog set in a small Nepalese village where the daughter of the matriarch of a community of Kinnar women disappears. Producers are Underground Talkies Nepal, Les Valseurs and Die Gesellschaft DGS. Best Friend Forever is selling.
A special jury prize was awarded to Louis Clichy’s animated feature Iron Boy, just after the film was scooped up by Sony Pictures Classics for North and Latin America, India and Southeast Asian TV. The hand-painted French film is about an 11-year-old boy in rural France who reinvents his life away from the family farm and his distant father. Eddy Cinéma produced the film and Playtime is handling sales.
The best actor prize went to Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset for Rafiki Fariala’s Congo Boy and the best actress award was shared by Marina De Tavira, Daniela Marin Navarro and Mariangel Villegas for Valentina Maurel’s Forever Your Maternal Animal.
French actress Leila Bekhti presided over this year’s jury alongside Angele Diabang, a producer from Senegal, Lebanese composer Khaled Mouzanar, Italian director Laura Samani, and French director Thomas Cailley.
This year’s Un Certain Regard selection opened with Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma and closed on Friday evening following the ceremony with the world premiere of Laetitia Masson’s Ulysse.
Last year’s top prize went to Chilean director Diego Cespedes’ The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo.
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