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

An ominous droning rush swarms the soundtrack at several points in “Sound of Falling,” like the growing momentum of weight meeting gravity, and it’s presumably this recurring aural motif that gives ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling was so rapturously acclaimed upon its premiere on the first full day of Cannes 2025 that some thought they’d already seen a possible Palme d’Or winner. In the end, ...

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 ...

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 things differently there." That sentiment resonates throughout writer and ...