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EXCLUSIVE: Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner’s 3rd feature Everytime world premieres successful Cannes Un Certain Regard this year, and Deadline tin uncover a clip setting-up nan premise for nan communicative of a family coming to position pinch a tragic loss.
On nan eve of a family vacation, nan eldest girl sneaks retired to spot her boyfriend. After a nighttime of partying, they climb a high-rise to watch nan sunrise nether nan power of pills successful an escapade that will return a tragic turn.
A twelvemonth later, nan girl’s mother and younger sister are joined by nan fellow successful a travel to Tenerife for a family vacation that ne'er happened. Under nan glow of nan sun, past and coming softly commencement to overlap arsenic they struggle pinch blasted and forgiveness.
Birgit Minichmayr (The White Ribbon, 3 Days successful Quiberon, The Blood Countess) plays nan mother, alongside nan emerging young formed of Lotte Shirin Keiling, Tristan Lopez and Carla Hüttermann.
“I don’t judge successful an afterlife, but I envy those who do. I do judge that nan images of nan group we emotion enactment pinch america – that they someway inscribe themselves into nan world. Ever since my begetter died, whenever I travel crossed a definite crook successful nan river, I tin spot him opinionated there, fiddling pinch his sportfishing rod. And for a little instant it feels arsenic if I could simply measurement into that image,” says Wollner successful a director’s statement.
“I person met nan benignant of group for illustration those successful this movie much than erstwhile successful my life: nan mother who mislaid her daughter, nan boy who was there, nan younger sister who has not yet recovered a measurement to process it. We watch them arsenic they proceed pinch mundane life, because they person nary prime – homework, groceries, meal – clinging to a vulnerable regular that hardly masks an intolerable wish: to someway return to a spot wherever nary of this has happened.“
Everytime is Wollner’s 3rd characteristic aft The Impossible Picture and The Trouble With Being Born, which played successful nan Berlinale’s nan Encounters section, winning nan typical assemblage award.
The movie is produced by Lixi Frank and David Bohun astatine Vienna-based Panama Film, Viktoria Stolpe astatine The Barricades, her Berlin-based institution pinch Timm Kröger, Wollner, and Roderick Warich.
Charades is handling world sales.
