Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent Sound of Falling tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka), each of whom live in the same farmhouse in Germany, across four different generations. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge between the four girls as echoes of experience linger and coalesce into a cinematic flood of memories. Sensual and sensory, this awe-inspiring Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to ask: what is looking back at us from the past—or perhaps even from the future?