Sound of Falling

Plot

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.

About Sound of Falling

Sound of Falling (German: In die Sonne schauen, lit. 'Looking into the sun') is a 2025 German drama film co-written and directed by Mascha Schilinski. Starring Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Laeni Geiseler, Susanne Wuest, Luise Heyer, and Lea Drinda, it follows four generations of girls connected by a farm in the Altmark, Germany. The film premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 14 May 2025, where it won the Jury Prize. It was theatrically released in Germany by Neue Visionen on 28 August 2025. It was selected as the German entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist, but was not nominated. It swept the 76th German Film Awards, winning every of the 10 categories it was nominated for, including Best Film, Director, and Screenplay.

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