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Sound of Falling

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Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a German farm, their lives become intertwined until time seems to dissolve.
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Exquisitely well-crafted and laced with mordant humor, Sound of Falling is a haunting generational drama that announces Mascha Schillinski as a world-class directorial talent.

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Danny Leigh Financial Times Mar 9
4/5
Director Mascha Schilinski’s jagged, heady film is a dark collage of girlhood through time, most clearly held together by a setting in the same farmhouse in Altmark, north-east Germany. Go to Full Review
Catherine Wheatley Sight & Sound Mar 6
Mascha Schilinski’s fragmentary look into the lives of four generations of German women – each affected by violence and abuse in different ways – is as unsettling as it is breathtaking. Go to Full Review
Deborah Ross The Spectator Mar 5
It’s non-chronological, impressionistic, profoundly art-house and even though I am a fervent fan of linear storytelling -- what can I tell you? I just love a beginning, middle and end -- this is compelling and mesmerises even when it confounds. Go to Full Review
Filipe Freitas Always Good Movies Mar 3
4/5
Sound of Falling is a rare, darkly beautiful movie experience and a powerful reflection on childhood, femininity, the body, and memory. Go to Full Review
Eleanor Capaldi The Skinny Mar 2
4/5
Traumas push people across veils and borders, from life and death and family lines, to the other side of the farmhouse river and a different Germany. Go to Full Review
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Ghederick Eshmont Feb 9 A brilliant film, but not an ounce of fun to be had, a tragic charring story of generational abuse See more Tim O @Fustyoaks 3d I really didn’t enjoy this film and found it hard to stay engaged. There is no plot to speak of and the various scenes involving different characters weave inexplicably without ever connecting. There are some interesting and engaging moments but the narrative is never fully realised and the sum is much less than the parts. I know that some viewers have loved this film but I found it dull and impenetrable. See more Yaojen C @RT01772798 6d It’s so awfully boring and pointless I had the urge to post the review here to warn others not to waste their precious 2.5 hours on such a film. I was really bored and wish I had left the cinema. See more John T @johnthou Mar 14 Some nice ideas, very nice images, but much too long (and I'm used and usually like long movies). Misery is an interesting theme, but this film seems eager to generate it in it's viewer. See more Mark V @sidonia007 Mar 8 I highly can recommend this movie. Although I am aware its not for everybody (see negative reviews here). But even if its not the type of film you like or can understand you must be aware this one is brilliant in its own value. I have the feeling that any description given here is useless. You have to experience it yourself. This is art. This is pure film making. See more Jennie F @KoreGX Feb 3 This is one of those movies that critics gush over and audiences hate. Running 2.5 hours, it feels more like 3.5 hours. It tells the story of 4 generations of awful people who only get more awful as the film meanders like a drunk, handsy uncle towards its bleak conclusion, sorry, final scene. There is no conclusion. I’ve seen it described as "hypnotic" which I think might be critics’ code for "nothing happens and I was bored shitless, but I don’t want to appear stupid to my critic mates, so I’ll say it was hypnotic." We saw it as part of a film festival where audiences get to vote after the film. I’ve never seen the 1 star container so full. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a German farm, their lives become intertwined until time seems to dissolve.
Director
Mascha Schilinski
Producer
Lucas Schmidt, Lasse Scharpen
Screenwriter
Mascha Schilinski, Louise Peter, Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski
Distributor
MUBI
Production Co
ZDF, Studio Zentral
Genre
Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 16, 2026, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$86.4K
Runtime
2h 29m
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