Everytime

By Sandra Wollner

See one of the standout films from this year’s Cannes Film Festival! Everytime is a hypnotic blend of realist family drama and a metaphysical exploration of how grief can bring people—and different moments in time—together. Masterfully shot by Gregory Oke (Aftersun).

Wednesday 28.10.26

hr. 18:00-20:00 – Conversation between Greg Oke, Steffen Krüger, Timotheus Vermeulen

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Panel discussion & screening October 28 in collaboration with Screen Cultures

Welcome to our screening of Sandra Wollner’s Everytime, a movie where past and present starts to blend as a family in grief travels on a holiday that never happened. In their struggle, old home videos, video games and phones become portals through which the past interacts with the present.

After the screening there will be a panel discussion regarding the concept of ‘digital ghosts’. In conversation: Cinematographer of Everytime (2026) Greg Oke (joining us digitally); Steffen Krüger, professor at the Dept. of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo; and Timotheus Vermeulen, professor at the Dept. of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, and lead theorist of contemporary culture.

About the conversation:

Ghost photography, radios used to communicate with the dead, and haunted video tapes; Technologies of reproduction have long been associated with capturing and displacing memory, and in turn, with the supernatural. Even in our current mediated reality where the time-capture of technological reproductions have lost their initial mystery, there is something ghostly in the act of capturing a moment in time, leaving a trace of the past to be carried into the future. In our highly mediated reality, we surround ourselves with increased amounts of such ghostly traces, from our chat histories to our times spent in online games. What then, when those digital traces are all that is left of person? With Everytime as a starting point, the conversation will explore ‘digital ghosts’ and the role of screens in our understanding of grief. How is mourning, time and remembrance shaped by our current digital culture?

Greg Oke

Greg Oke is a filmmaker, cinematographer and sound recordist. His most recent work was as cinematographer on Everytime (2026), and has previously worked on the Oscar nominated film Aftersun (2022). Greg grew up in a rural community on the border of England and Wales and graduated with an MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2017, with his short thesis film Été. The film has been successfully screened in multiple film festivals internationally.

Steffen Krüger

Steffen Krüger is professor at the Dept. of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. His interests focus on psychosocial and psychoanalytic theory, often at the intersections between the roles, functions, and meanings of aggression, mourning, humour and other socio- and psychodynamics in media communication. He has written on the connections between psychoanalysis and social media, the effects of increased usage of Zoom during the pandemic, the affective labour of “My 22nd July” webpage, and many other platforms of our media-saturated society.

Timotheus Vermeulen

Timotheus Vermeulen is professor at the Dempartment of Media and Communcation at the University of Oslo. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Univeiversity and is co-founder of the influential online magazine Notes on Metamodernism. Timotheus is co-director of Media Aesthetics research group and one of the founders of the Screen Cultures programme at UiO. He is the author of Plastic Time: Gesture on Screen (2026), a book which radically rethinks how we experience time in screen media (https://www.timotheusvermeulen...).

About the film

A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together. Struggling with blame and forgiveness, the unlikely trio take a trip to Tenerife for a family holiday that never happened. Under the glow of the sun, past and present quietly start to overlap.

The film was part of the Un Certain Regard - section of Cannes 2026 and was praised by several critics as one of the festival’s standout films.

About the director

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 Award. 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".

Wollner lives and works in Berlin.