Sound of Falling

Is Sound of Falling worth watching?

Yes — Sound of Falling earns a 78% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Critics have hailed this Cannes Jury Prize winner as a formally audacious, deeply unsettling generational epic that marks Schilinski as a major new voice, even as some general viewers have found its fractured structure and bleak subject matter tougher to embrace.

Celluloid Critics Consensus

Critics (95%) were notably more enthusiastic than audiences (59%).

What is Sound of Falling about?

Four girls growing up decades apart — in the 1910s, 1940s, 1980s, and 2020s — share the same farmhouse in rural northern Germany, their lives quietly echoing one another across generations. Mascha Schilinski's sophomore feature weaves their stories into a single tapestry of girlhood, trauma, and inherited memory, letting the house itself hold what each era leaves behind.