US EditionScreening at Cannes: Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’
- German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski will make her debut on the Croisette at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in May 2025, where her follow-up feature will compete in the main competition.
- Schilinski developed the film through an extensive year-long casting of about 1,400 girls and shot the two-and-a-half-hour drama in 34 days with modest means and no rehearsals.
- Sound of Falling is a bold, non-linear polyptych that traces the lives of multiple generations of women residing on a German farmhouse, delving into themes of trauma, hidden truths, and the enduring impact of imagery across eras from the early 20th century to the present day.
- The film runs 149 minutes, stars Hanna Heckt and Lea Drinda among others, and incorporates themes like dark family secrets, cyclical silences, and girls’ morbid fascinations about death, as Schilinski explained, “we could sense the centuries.”
- Schilinski’s Cannes inclusion marks her first film on the Croisette and positions her as the only German director in the main competition, potentially boosting her career and setting a high artistic benchmark.
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Cannes Diary #2: "The Sound of Falling" opened the competition program with a very unexpected bang
This entry in the Cannes diary included two films from the festival's main competition program - Mascha Schilinski's "The Sound of a Fall" and Sergei Loznitsa's "Two Prosecutors" - and the opening film of the Authors' Twin Week, "Enzo".
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