Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards®

Writer-Director Mascha Schilinski's multi-award-winning film SOUND OF FALLING (IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN), Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® and Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival opens Friday, January 23rd at the Music Box Theatre.

Presented by MUBI and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Chicago.
 

In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.

Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger. 

Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?

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).

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