Everytime, a drama about grief from fast-rising Austrian director Sandra Wollner (The Trouble With Being Born), took top honors for best film at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section.
The feature, starring Birgit Minichmayr, Lotte Keiling, Tristan López, and Carla Hüttermann, follows a family on summer holiday that are struck by a tragedy that ripples through their lives and relationships. Produced by Panama Films and The Barricades, Everytime is being sold by Charades worldwide.
Elephants in the Fog, a Nepalese drama about a community of transgender women, took the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize. In his feature debut, writer-director Abinash Bikram Shah explores the Kinnar community, a legally recognized part of Nepal’s meti “third gender”, and the nature of trans acceptance in South Asia. Bubbles Project, Zischlermann Filmproduktion, Storm Films, and Jayantii Creations produced. Best Friend Forever is handling world sales.
A special jury prize went to Louis Clichy’s Iron Boy, a hand-painted animated feature, about an 11-year-old boy in rural France. Sony Pictures Classics picked up all rights in North and Latin America, as well as for India and Southeast Asian TV, to the feature out of Cannes. Iron Boy marks Clichy’s first film as a solo director, after many years working as an animator for Pixar on such features as WALL-E and Up. Playtime is selling worldwide.
