Sound of Falling

A group of adults in dark formal clothing gather inside a dim house while a pale-haired child stands among them. The child looks directly toward the camera as the adults face different directions.

Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent Sound of Falling tracks the lives of four adolescent girls Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka who each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the course of the last century. Fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory—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 in this sensual and sensory film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Sound of Falling invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and to ask: what is looking back at us from the past—or perhaps even from the future?

In German with English subtitles. Part of our "The Uncanny" series. Courtesy: MUBI

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