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 ...

Sound of Falling takes its time but it is not interested in straightforward entertainment because much as it is like life, the past, present and ...

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 ...

Unfolding like 100 years of home video footage that were shot by the family ghosts, Mascha Schilinski’s rich and mesmeric “Sound of Falling” glimpses four generation of young women as they live, die, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...