German entry to the 98th Academy Awards® – Best Intl. Feature

Join us on Wednesday, November 12th at the Crescent Theater for a special screening of Writer-Director Mascha Schilinski's multi-award-winning film SOUND OF FALLING (IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN) , Germany's submission to the 98th Academy Awards® – BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM. 

Presented by MUBI and German Films, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut.

A discussion with Writer-Director Mascha Schilinski and Director of Photography Fabian Gamper follows the screening. 

Admission is free with RSVP below. Capacity is limited. 
RSVP holders will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.

SCHEDULE:
7:00 PM Opening remarks and screening of SOUND OF FALLING | IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN 
9:30 PM Discusion with Writer-Director Mascha Schilinski and Director of Photography Fabian Gamper

Parking is available at Crescent Theater parking garage located at
100 N. Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

PARKING INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS


SOUND OF FALLING | IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN 
Germany (2023-2025), 154 Min., German with English Subtitles
Director: Mascha Schilinski, Screenplay: Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski, Cinematographer: Fabian Gamper, Editor: Evelyn Rack, Cast: Lena Urzendowsky, Laeni Geiseler, Zoë Baier, Hanna Heckt, Lea Drinda, Luise Heyer, Greta Krämer, Filip Schnack, Helena Lüer, Anastasia Cherepakha, Producers: Lucas Schmidt, Kerstin Jummrich (Junior Producer), Lasse Scharpen, Maren Schmitt, Production Company: Studio Zentral (Berlin).
  Winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, German director Mascha Schilinski’s (DARK BLUE GIRL) stunning sophomore feature is a hypnotic, time-traversing portrait of four generations of women living in the same isolated German farmhouse over the course of a century. Starting in the early 1900s, spanning the Second World War, the German Democratic Republic during the 1980s and present-day Germany, Schilinski’s puzzle box narrative follows Alma (Hanna Heckt), Erika (Lea Drinda), Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky) and Lenka (Laeni Geiseler) as they endure private and political traumas that echo eerily across time. Unfolding like a labyrinthine ghost story, Schilinski’s film gradually reveals itself as an unexpected epic about the ways in which women’s lives are shaped by seen and unseen socio-political forces, and in which inherited trauma forges a kinship across generations. With a restrained visual language that leans on Fabian Gamper’s 4:3 cinematography to create an immersive, painterly world, in which the camera glides through interior domestic spaces like the disembodied ghost of an earlier era, and an unsettling score by Michael Fiedler and Eike Hosenfeld that amplifies the unearthly atmosphere of dread and longing — the film reflects place as a palimpsest for family history, connecting cultural memory with shared emotion. SOUND OF FALLING is a cinematic, poetic meditation on the ghosts we carry and those we leave behind.
(source: AFI–Abbie Algar)

AWARDS:
IFF Cannes 2025 Jury Prize, Competition
Filmkunstmesse Leipzig 2025 Gilde-Filmpreis, Best Film (national)
Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen 2025 Filmkunstpreis, Best DirectionRegie
Heimat Europa Filmfestspiele 2025 Hauptpreis "Edgar", Bester moderner Heimatfilm
Thomas Strittmatter Drehbuchpreis 2023 Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Award, Bestes (un-prodiced) Screenplay

Mascha Schilinski is a writer and director, who was born in Berlin. She completed the "Drehbuch-Masterclass" at the Filmschule Hamburg and worked as a writer. Schilinksi then began her film directing studies at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Her award-winning medium-length film Die Katze (The Cat) was made in her second year of study. In her third year of study, she directed her feature film Die Tochter (Dark Blue Girl). The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2017 and was nominated for the GWFF Award - Best First Feature. Die Tochter (Dark Blue Girl) screened at more than forty festivals worldwide and won several international awards. In 2023, she and her co-writer Louise Peter won the Thomas Strittmatter Award for their screenplay Sound of Falling. Sound of Falling premiered in Official Selection - Competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

Fabian Gamper – Director of Photography, was born in Switzerland. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in film from the Zurich University of the Arts, he worked as a second camera assistant on various feature and television films. He then studied cinematography at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His first feature film as a cinematographer, DIE TOCHTER (Dark Blue Girl) by Mascha Schilinski, celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2017 ('Perspektive Deutsches Kino'). The film was screened at over 40 festivals worldwide and received several awards. 2018 he won the 'Deutscher Kamerapreis' for the short film FREIBADSINFONIE (Blue Summer Symphony) by Sinje Köhler. In 2021, he started a collaboration with Robert Gwisdek for several projects in a row, such as Gwisdek's feature film debut as a director DER JUNGE, DEM DIE WELT GEHÖRT (The Boy Who Owns The World) as well as another feature film EIN FILM ÜBER DEN TOD (in post prod.) His recent work includes the feature Film SOUND OF FALLING by Mascha Schilinski. Fabian lives in Berlin.

Presented in cooperation with ZODIAC PICTURES , the German Consulate General in Los Angeles, and the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco.