Everytime
Date:
January 9, 2023
Everytime
Everytime
by Sandra Wollner
Panama Films | Austria
The Barricades | Germany
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Logline
One year after Jessie’s death, her mother and sister take in her ex-boyfriend, the boy the whole world secretly blames for her death. When the unlikely trio leave for Tenerife, a family trip that never happened, past and present start to overlap.
Synopsis
Jessie is about to leave on vacation with her mom and little sister – but sneaks out to party with her boyfriend Lux. When the pills finally kick in and they climb a high-rise to watch the sunrise, Lux falls asleep – and doesn’t notice Jessie walking to the edge, falling hundreds of meters. She dies instantly.
A year later, her mother Ella and sister Melli cling to a fragile routine of everyday life – and seem to get by. But when Lux returns into their lives, Ella can’t admit that deep down she blames him for her daughter’s death – and he can’t admit how badly he needs her to forgive him. We watch everyone trying very hard to do “the right thing” – until one night, Ella finds Lux drunk by the train tracks. He breaks down in Jessie’s old room, begging for forgiveness. But Ella drags him into the forest, asking him to give her some of the stuff he gave Jessie that night. They walk the same path, and Ella sees the same things Jessie must have seen. Driven by a strange impulse, Ella takes Lux and Melli to Tenerife – the holiday that never happened – not realizing that nothing awaits them there.
As they prepare to leave, Melli finds Lux’s strange candies in her mother’s backpack. What follows could be dismissed as a drug trip: Jessie seems to be back, as a 3-year-old child. It’s as if Melli had stepped straight into an old MiniDV video of her sister. But this “trip” soon affects everyone: her mother, the entire hotel complex, and even the sun that seems to be frozen in sunset…
Director’s Profile
Born 1983 in Leoben, Austria, Sandra Wollner studied directing for documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Her first feature film THE IMPOSSIBLE PICTURE received the Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino and the German Film Critics’ Award for Best Feature Film in 2018. Her graduation film THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN had its world premiere at the 70th Berlinale in the Encounters section in 2020 and was awarded the Special Jury Prize. The film also received the Austrian Film Award for “Best Director” and “Best Feature Film” and the German Film Critics’ Award in the categories “Best Feature Film” and “Best Cinematography”. Sandra lives and works in Berlin.
Company Profile
Panama Film stands for films that give expression and space to challenging questions, lingering observations, and lost longings. We collaborate with filmmakers who approach their projects with an individual style and cast an undisguised gaze at the world, with all its fractures and subtleties. Our productions are mostly created in collaboration with international production companies that share our enthusiasm for cinema.
Panama Film was founded in 2018 by Lixi Frank and David Bohun. Our films have premiered at major festivals worldwide: MOVEMENTS OF A NEARBY MOUNTAIN, directed by Sebastian Brameshuber, won the Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel 2019; THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN, directed by Sandra Wollner, won the Special Jury Award at Berlinale Encounters 2020 and four awards at the Austrian Film Awards, including Best Picture. In 2023, Bernhard Braunstein’s documentary STAMS premiered at Berlinale Panorama, and our trilateral co-production THE UNIVERSAL THEORY, directed by Timm Kröger, debuted in competition at the Venice Biennale. In 2024, BLUISH, by Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky, won the Grand Prix at FID Marseille, and most recently, WHITE SNAIL, directed by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, won the Special Jury Award and the Pardo for Best Performance at the Locarno Film Festival 2025.