Sandra Wollner’s Everytime has been selected as Germany’s entry for the 99th Academy Awards in the international feature film category.

The drama, produced by The Barricades, was chosen by a nine-member independent jury appointed by promotion body German Films. Wollner’s third feature premiered in Cannes this year, winning best film in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.

The film stars Birgit Minichmayr as a mother who loses her daughter Jesse in a tragic event and then struggles to cope with her grief and her complicated relationship to her younger daughter and Jesse’s boyfriend, who many blame for her death. What starts as a realistic drama becomes increasingly strange as Wollner mixes the present and the past, memories and imagination in her exploration of a family dealing with loss.

“Everytime succeeds in making grief, as a state of a world that has come undone, tangible through purely cinematic means and with surprising lightness,” the jury said in a statement. “Elegant in its play with form and narrative ellipses, Everytime tells of the spaces between the pain of loss.”

Everytime will have its North American premiere in Toronto next month. Charades is handling international sales. The film has already sold to more than 30 territories, with 1-2 Special picking up domestic rights.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the 15 films on the best international feature film shortlist on Dec. 15. The five nominees will be announced Jan. 21, 2027. The 99th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 14, 2027.

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