Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner’s third feature Everytime has scooped the top Jury Prize in Cannes Un Certain Regard.
The drama revolves around a family coming to terms with loss when the eldest daughter’s night of partying with her boyfriend takes a deadly turn on the eve of a family holiday.
A year later, the girl’s mother and younger sister are joined by the boyfriend in a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the sun, past and present quietly start to overlap as they struggle with blame and forgiveness.
This year’s Un Certain Regard jury was presided over by French actress Leïla Bekhti and also included Senegalese producer Angèle Diabang, Lebanese composer Khaled Mouzanar, Italian director Laura Samani, and French filmmaker Thomas Cailley.
A total of 19 feature – six of them first features – played in the section devoted to discoveries and auteur films.
In other prizes, Nepalese director Abinash Bikram Shah’s Elephants in the Fog was feted with the Jury Prize, while Louis Clichy’s Sony Pictures Classics-acquired animation Iron Boy won the Special Jury Prize.
Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset scooped Best Actor in Rafiki Fariala’s Congo Boy for his performance as a teenage Congolese refugee surviving on his own in the Central African Republic.
Marina De Tavira, Daniela Marín Navarro and Mariangel Villegas shared the Best Actress prize for their performances in Valentina Maurel’s Forever Your Maternal Animal about a woman who returns to Costa Rica to reunite with her family after years of studying in Europe, to find it drifting in apart.
Aside from the prize-winners, this year’s selection also featured market breakout Club Kid and the buzzed about opening film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
