The Sound of Falling

The Sound of Falling / Germany/ 2025/ Dir: Mascha Schilinski/ 153 Min/ Current Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%

In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.

Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.

Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?

“An awe-inducing cinematic experience” - Bloomberg

“Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance” - Deadline