Germany will be represented at the next Academy Awards by the film "Everytime". An independent jury convened by the association German Films chose the work by director Sandra Wollner from eleven submitted titles, it was announced on Tuesday evening. The film, which deals with the death of a 17-year-old girl in Berlin and stars Birgit Minichmayr and Tristán López, had already won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Explaining its decision, the jury said that with this film "director and writer Sandra Wollner pulls off the feat of making grief tangible, through purely cinematic means and with a surprising lightness, as the condition of a world knocked out of joint." The panel added: "The outstanding camera work creates a shimmering, at times otherworldly atmosphere, without pushing itself in front of the characters." The acting ensemble, it said, is convincing "in its naturalness, while the characterisations remain precise and ambivalent throughout."
Director Wollner and the producers described the nomination as an honour. "The jury's confidence reinforces our conviction that cinema needs idiosyncratic voices that have the courage to follow their own form and, precisely in doing so, to reach an audience across borders," they said.
"Everytime" celebrated its world premiere in May 2026 at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is Sandra Wollner's third feature and was awarded a prize there in the "Un Certain Regard" section. The German-Austrian co-production received funding from the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, among others.
The film has been submitted for the Oscars in the "International Feature Film" category. On 15 December, the Academy will announce which 15 titles have made it onto the shortlist. The five nominated films will be selected from that shortlist and announced on 21 January 2027. The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on 14 March 2027.
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