Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mascha Schilinski, despite having helmed “The Daughter” while in grad school, is making a statement: Her true feature film debut ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. MUBI releases “Sound of Falling” in select theaters starting Friday, January 16, 2026. Unfolding like 100 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Some Cannes Film Festivals take days to get going in terms of critical hits. Not this year. We told you a while ago about the buzz for Mascha Schilinski‘s Competition film Sound of Falling. We told ...