SOUND OF FALLING | IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN

GERMANY | 2025 | COLOR | DCP | 149’ | GERMAN

A farm in the German countryside becomes the common ground in the testimonies of four girls, whose stories span the entire 20th century. Time becomes a catalyst in a cinematic poem that examines the generational trauma imposed by patriarchy, dizzyingly traverses the distance from psychodrama to naturalism and from feminist narrative to elegy, and composes a shocking commentary on female nature and its place in what we have learned to read as History. For the mothers, daughters, sisters, the anonymous ghosts that stubbornly haunt its pages. Announcing the great directorial talent of Mascha Schilinski, a cinema of elaborate composition and high aesthetics, “Sound of Falling” won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, it is Germany's official submission for the upcoming Oscars, and for many turns into one of the defining films of the year. Th.K.

DIRECTOR: Mascha Schilinski
SCREENWRITERS: Mascha Schilinski, Louise Peter
DoP: Fabian Gamper
MUSIC: Michael Fiedler
EDITOR: Evelyn Rack
PRINCIPAL CAST: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt, Laeni Geiseler, Florian Geißelmann, Andreas Anke, Susanne Wuest, Gode Benedix, Bärbel Schwarz, Lucas Prisor, Konstantin Lindhorst, Luzia Oppermann, Martin Rother, Filip Schnack, Ninel Skrzypczyk, Greta Krämer, Zoë Baier, Anastasia Cherepakha, Liane Düsterhöft, Helena Lüer

MASCHA SCHILINSKI
German film director and screenwriter, born in 1984. She graduated from the screenwriting program at the Filmschule Hamburg Berlin in 2008, and later studied directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. She began her career as a casting director. “Sound of Falling” is her second feature film, it won the Jury Prize in this year’s Cannes Film Festival and it is selected as the German entry for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming 98th Academy Awards.

FILMOGRAPHY
2025 Sound of Falling
2017 Dark Blue Girl