#Supernova, focusing on emerging talents in contemporary cinema, presented the premiere of Sound of Falling (2025) on Friday 28 November, the second feature film by German director Mascha Schilinski, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
After the film, the director met the audience in a talk moderated by critic and programmer Daniela Persico.
SOUND OF FALLING
Original title: In die Sonne schauen
2025, 150’
Directed by: Mascha Schilinski
Country: Germany
Distribution: I Wonder Pictures
Language: German with English subtitles
UNRELEASED
A large farm in northern Germany is the backdrop for the stories of four female characters. The women’s destinies intertwine across three different eras, leading them to investigate a truth that has been hidden for too long.
After her debut behind the camera with the intense Dark Blue Girl (2017), Mascha Schilinski arrives in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where she wins the Jury Prize with a fascinating and painful work. Written by the director together with screenwriter Louise Peter, Sound of Falling does not follow a linear plot, but recomposes the fragments of four lives to recount the persistence of a hereditary trauma. Schilinski follows the protagonists with a rigorous and pulsating mise-en-scène that alternates daring sequence shots with disturbing subjective shots, crafting a precious film of rare sensitivity that reveals a new talent in contemporary cinema. “The film spans a century of women’s lives in rural Germany, and at times it seems that tragedy has infiltrated every generation, almost grammatically, as if the very air of the farm were composed of unanswered questions, silent screams and shared nightmares. Rigorous in form, shot through with black humour and a pulsating sensual intensity, the work thus becomes not only a chronicle of female becoming, but a place where the living and the dead, the visible and the repressed, meet” (Guy Lodge).