2025 · drama · war · coming-of-age
Sound of Falling
Directed by Mascha Schilinski2h 28m2025
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.
Our read: Sound of Falling (2025) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · war · coming-of-age entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / war, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
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“You want a haunting, fragmented portrait of generational trauma and girls' suffering on one German farm.”
Skip it tonight — You want any form of escape or light viewing; this is relentlessly bleak.
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