Mascha Schilinski’s second feature employs a comprehensive cinematic arsenal to tell a tale of abuse, unease and alienation ...

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 ...

It’s not every day you see a movie that resembles nothing you’ve quite seen before, making you question the very notion of what a movie can be. And yet German director Mascha Schilinski’s bold second ...

The Sound of Falling (In die Sonne schauen) echoes hauntingly across a hundred years of history on the same northern German farm. Through an expressionistic work of beauty, director Mascha Schilinski ...

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 ...

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 ...

The German film Sound of Falling compels and disturbs in equal measure. The opening line of L.P. Hartley's seminal coming-of-age novel The Go-Between reads, "The past is a foreign country, they do ...