Quietly unfolding as a folk-horror of German history, the stories in the film are told from the peripheries and through the ...

Mascha Schilinski, despite having helmed “The Daughter” while in grad school, is making a statement: Her true feature film debut is upcoming Cannes release “Sound of Falling,” which already has ...

Directed by Mascha Schilinski, the movie accommodates four generations of German women, all occupying the same house but in different eras with different rules.

The competition for Cannes’ Palme d’Or commences with Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling, the first of 22 films that will screen in contention for the festival’s top prize. The only solely German ...

Sound of Falling weaves together the experiences of four generations of women living in the same rural stretch of northern Germany, and the secrets that have accumulated over that time.

Sound of Falling (2025)’s plot synopsis: “A secluded four-sided farmhouse in the Altmark, Northern Germany. For over a century, the walls have breathed the lives of the people who live here, their ...

As if to quell any lingering gripes about an opening film that could be generously described as wafer-thin, organizers from this year’s Cannes Film Festival kicked off the Palme d’Or competition with ...

Some Cannes Film Festivals take days to get going in terms of critical hits. Not this year. We told you a while ago about the buzz for Mascha Schilinski‘s Competition film Sound of Falling. We told ...

Mubi has acquired writer/director Mascha Schilinski’s acclaimed drama “Sound of Falling” after the film’s Cannes debut, marking the distributor’s second major pickup of the festival thus far. It comes ...

German director Mascha Schilinski brings buzzy “Sound of Falling” to Cannes competition, alongside the ghosts that haunted her when she was writing the feature with Louise Peter on a farm. “There are ...

This is FRESH AIR. One of the best movies our film critic, Justin Chang, saw in 2025 is now in theaters. It's a German film called "Sound Of Falling," and it won a Jury prize at the Cannes Film ...