Germany has chosen Mascha Schilinski‘s intergenerational drama “Sound of Falling,” which gained the Cannes Jury Prize, as its entry within the Greatest Worldwide Function Movie class of the 98th Academy Awards.
The unbiased jury of consultants, appointed by German Movies, stated: ” ‘Sound of Falling’ is formally uncompromising, emotionally existential, and artistically distinctive – with none parallel in German and worldwide cinema. Spanning a century, the movie interweaves the lives of 4 girls who wrestle in opposition to confinement, violence and social constraints. A piece of uncommon urgency, masterfully directed, poetic, common, brave, ‘Sound of Falling’ is a bodily expertise that resonates and burns itself into the reminiscence.”
The movie is ready in a secluded farmstead in Germany’s Altmark area. For over a century, the partitions have breathed the lives of the individuals who dwell right here, their tastes, their existence in time.
“Sound of Falling” tells the story of 4 girls from totally different eras – Alma (1910s), Erika (Nineteen Forties), Angelika (Eighties) and Nelly (2020s) – whose lives are eerily intertwined. Every of them experiences their childhood or youth on this farm, however as they roam by their very own current, traces of the previous – unstated fears, repressed traumas, buried secrets and techniques – reveal themselves to them.
Alma discovers that she was named after her deceased sister and believes she should comply with the identical destiny. Erika loses herself in a harmful fascination along with her disabled uncle. Angelika balances between a demise want and a lust for all times, trapped in a fragile household system. And eventually there’s Nelly, rising up in obvious safety, who’s haunted by intense goals and the unconscious burden of the previous. When a tragic occasion repeats itself on the farm, the boundaries between previous and current start to blur.
The movie was produced by Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt and Lasse Scharpen for Studio Zentral with Burkhard Althoff and Melvina Kotios forZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel. It was backed by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), the Federal Authorities Commissioner for Tradition and the Media (BKM), and the German Federal Movie Fund (DFFF).
MK2 is dealing with worldwide gross sales. “Sound of Falling” has been offered to over 40 territories. Mubi acquired the rights for North America, the U.Ok., Eire, India and Turkey. The German distributor is Neue Visionen.
