Sound of Falling

AroView: A German drama of astonishing ambition from director Mascha Schilinski that interleaves episodes from four generations (1910s, 1940s, 1980s and 2020s) of a family living at the same farmstead.

It’s a bravely unconventional, impressionistic work that entrusts the audience to thread the myriad connections, while casting a ‘hauntological’ spell that binds the past and the future through bold choices in sound and editing. As such, it’s a story of ghosts that is worlds away from the tropes of a horror film, but is no less unnerving.

“Twining together the lives of four generations of families with an intricacy and intimacy that feels like an act of psychic transmission.” ~Alison Willmore, New York Magazine (Vulture)

“Sound Of Falling, the striking second feature from German director Mascha Schilinski, is a work of thrilling ambition realised by an assured directorial vision.” ~Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

“This highly experimental, deeply unsettling tale about the fates of women and their echoes down history plays like a psychosexual fever dream of epic scope. While it will confound and upset plenty, hardcore cinephiles can mark this down as their next film to obsess over. It’s quite a feast.” ~Zhuo-Ning Su, The Film Stage