“Everytime” Earns Gotham Noms, Opens Oscar Run November 6

By Elena Vasquez

When can audiences see “Everytime”?

“Everytime” will play for a one-week Oscar-qualifying run at New York City’s Lincoln Center starting November 6, before its full theatrical release on February 12, 2027. The seven-day New York engagement precedes the broader opening by roughly three months. IndieWire reported both dates and identified “Everytime” as Germany’s entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar.

Sandra Wollner directed the film. IndieWire reported that it won in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and bewitched festival audiences from Toronto to New York. Those festival markers extend the film’s recognition, but its Oscar campaign includes a short, seven-day New York theatrical window before the planned wider release.

“Everytime” received three Gotham Award nominations, IndieWire reported: Best International Feature, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In his Grade A review, IndieWire’s David Ehrlich wrote: “Its ineffable power belongs to how matter-of-factly Wollner tears apart the fabric of her film’s reality at the same time as she threads it together.”

Ehrlich’s assessment identifies the formal risk in Wollner’s approach: she disrupts ordinary reality while keeping her characters’ emotional logic intact. The review gives the film’s central risk a sharp definition before its New York opening.

Takeaway: New York audiences can see the Oscar contender for seven days from November 6.

What does the Berlin story involve?

Following a tragedy in Berlin, Ella (Birgit Minichmayr), her youngest daughter Melli (Lotte Shirin Keiling), and Lux (Tristán López), the older daughter’s former boyfriend, travel to the Spanish island of Tenerife. IndieWire’s synopsis calls the journey a profound holiday. The environment appears to convene and reshape itself around the three characters’ shared, unimaginable loss.

IndieWire avoids explaining the film’s central turn. In the outlet’s assessment, that restraint suits a film more generously empathetic than Sandra Wollner’s preceding feature, “The Trouble with Being Born,” while preserving its destabilizing perspective on grief.

“The Trouble with Being Born” centers on a child-sized android cast in the resemblance of her master’s missing daughter, IndieWire reported. The earlier film strongly implies that the master sexually assaults the girl. IndieWire credited the disturbing premise with announcing Wollner’s aptitude for capturing grief from peculiar, underseen angles.

Although the earlier film used an android and an implied assault to unsettle viewers, “Everytime” appears to make loss more empathetic without surrendering the instability of form. The comparison gives Wollner a clear challenge: preserve the earlier film’s strangeness while expanding the emotional scale of Ella, Melli and Lux’s holiday.

Takeaway: The holiday turns grief into an environment that can bend the characters’ reality.

What happened after Cannes?

New York-based 1-2 Special purchased “Everytime” out of Cannes and will distribute it, IndieWire reported. The distributor also has Marine Atlan’s Cannes-winning “La Gradiva,” which enters theaters in December. IndieWire shared an exclusive teaser for “Everytime” alongside its report.

By pairing a December opening for “La Gradiva” with the February 12, 2027 date for “Everytime,” 1-2 Special now has two Cannes winners on its release calendar.

Takeaway: The film’s next checkpoint is a seven-day Lincoln Center run beginning November 6.