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SOUND OF FALLING
SOUND OF FALLING
SOUND OF FALLING
SOUND OF FALLING
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SOUND OF FALLING Germany, 2025, 149 min, color

Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka share a farmhouse in northern Germany across a century. As residents come and go, the place itself changes too: the subdued, somber atmosphere of the wartime years gives way to a touch of playfulness in the 1980s, eventually leading to a contemporary bohemian minimalism. Yet through all these transformations, the unspoken grief and disappointments of the four young women linger in the air like something condensed and heavy. That weight is carried and embodied by successive generations.

 

The filmmaker Mascha Schilinski interlaces the four periods associatively, letting the sensory quality of memory determine the narrative logic. These inherited memories and blurred traumas do not always make themselves known to the characters who carry them: they surface as a gut feeling, an intuition, a shared glance. Schilinski strikingly contrasts the elusiveness of this fractured collective memory with the stark physical presence of death.

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Cannes ’25 – Jury Prize 

Mascha Schilinski

Mascha Schilinski

Mascha Schilinski is a German director and screenwriter. In 2012, she began studying direction at the Filmakademie Baden-Württenberg. Made during her studies, her first short film The Cat (2015) was screened at the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival. Her graduation film and first feature, Dark Blue Girl (2017) was nominated for the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, and won five awards at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. Her sophomore film, Sound of Falling (2025) was selected to represent Germany in the Best International Film category at the 2026 Oscars.

 

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2015 The Cat / short

2017 Dark Blue Girl

2025 Sound of Falling

 

 

DIRECTOR
Mascha Schilinski
SCRIPT
Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski
CAMERA
Fabian Gamper
MUSIC
Michael Fiedler, Eike Hosenfeld
CAST
Lena Urzendowsky, Luise Heyer, Filip Schnack, Lea Drinda, Susanne Wuest, Luzia Oppermann
PRODUCERS
Lucas Schmidt, Maren Schmitt
PRODUCTION
Studio Zentral, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
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