Sandra Wollner's 'Everytime' wins Un Certain Regard

Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” took the top prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section on Friday, giving the Austrian director one of the festival’s main early awards before the closing ceremony. Festival organizers published the winners list on their official site, which named “Everytime” as the Un Certain Regard Prize winner. Variety, AwardsWatch and Next Best Picture reported the same result. Un Certain Regard is Cannes’ secondary competition within the Official Selection, separate from the Palme d’Or race that concludes at the main ceremony. The 2026 Cannes lineup page listed “Everytime” in that section, and the festival’s film page describes it as a 121-minute Austria-Germany production. The synopsis centers on Jessie, her younger sister and their mother, Ella, after one of the three disappears and the family searches for someone to blame before Ella heads to Tenerife. (festival-cannes.com) ### What exactly did “Everytime” win? The Festival de Cannes winners list says “Everytime” won the Un Certain Regard Prize, the section’s top award. Variety referred to it as the Un Certain Regard award, while AwardsWatch called it the Un Certain Regard Grand Prize, but all three reports identified Wollner’s film as the section winner. (festival-cannes.com) Friday’s result puts Wollner at the head of one of Cannes’ most closely watched sidebars, a section often used to spotlight emerging or formally adventurous filmmakers. The festival itself did not frame the award beyond the published list, but the placement confirms “Everytime” as the jury’s top choice in that strand. (festival-cannes.com) ### Who else won in Un Certain Regard? Abinash Bikram Shah’s “Elephants in the Fog” won the Jury Prize, according to the official Cannes list and corroborating trade reports. Louis Clichy’s “Iron Boy” received the Special Jury Prize. The acting prizes also went to two other films in the section. Bradley Fiomona Dembeasset won best actor for “Congo Boy,” directed by Rafiki Fariala, while Marina de Tavira, Daniela Marín Navarro and Mariangel Villegas shared best actress honors for Valentina Maurel’s “Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno,” rendered in some English-language coverage as “Forever Your Maternal Animal.” (festival-cannes.com) ### Why is the naming slightly different across outlets? The Cannes website uses the label “Un Certain Regard Prize” for the section’s top award. AwardsWatch used “Grand Prize,” and Variety’s headline said “Wins Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes.” The underlying result is the same: Wollner’s film finished first in the section. (festival-cannes.com) Spanish-language and English-language renderings also vary for Maurel’s film. Cannes listed it as “Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno,” while Variety used the English title “Forever Your Maternal Animal.” ### Where does this sit in the wider Cannes awards calendar? The 79th Festival de Cannes scheduled its closing ceremony for Saturday, May 23, with the main Competition prizes to be announced by the jury chaired by Park Chan-wook. (festival-cannes.com) That meant the Un Certain Regard results arrived before confirmation of the Palme d’Or and the rest of the top competition awards. Saturday’s closing ceremony was the next formal milestone on the Cannes calendar. The festival had already published the Un Certain Regard winners list, while the main jury’s decisions were due later the same day. (festival-cannes.com)