Never Rarely Sometimes Always

A quiet film without moralizing or pathos about a girl who secretly goes to have an abortion.

Seventeen-year-old Autumn finds out she is pregnant and travels to New York as a pious nurse in her hometown tries to dissuade her from having an abortion. Together with her cousin Skylar, they find themselves alone in a big city for the first time, with no money and nowhere to stay. The sisters have to spend several long and tedious days waiting for the clinic's decision, dozing off in the subway or diners. The pace of the film deeply empathizes with the heroines - it is slow and dreamy, as if the film is sniffing after the girls, drawing the viewer into their tiredness and uncertainty without becoming boring.

Eliza Hittman's third film made waves in 2020, winning jury prizes at Sundance and in Berlin. It's a film about hostility on both macro and micro levels—the city and the family—which sensitively describes a common but often silenced painful experience.

🏆 The film was nominated for the top prize at the Berlinale—the Golden Bear - and won the Silver Bear (Grand Jury Prize). It also received the Special Jury Prize "Neorealism" at the Sundance Film Festival.