"Schilinski's second feature is enclosed in a farm courtyard and nearby river in the Altmark region of Germany, starting around the First World War and spanning past the end of Communism. The drama draws us in through the eyes of four German girls from different generations as they struggle to make sense of their inner lives in harshly dissonant, half-occluded family dynamics unfolding around them."
"Quietly unfolding as a folk-horror of German history, the stories in the film are told from the peripheries and through the eyes of its most liminal of subjects: the girls in Sound of Falling are all on the verge of becoming ghosts, and we are witnesses at a seance. During World War I, Alma (Hanna Heckt), the youngest girl of her family, observes how her older brother Fritz (Filip Schnack), an amputee, is spared from conscription"
"Erika (Lea Drinda) slips into a morbid, erotic obsession with the now-aging "Uncle Fritz" (Martin Rother), her desire knotted with a disturbing private fantasy in which she imagines herself to be an amputee like him. We are made aware of the horrors of war only in moments just long enough to register their enormity. In the rancid atmosphere of the farm in the communist East in the 1980s, the teenage Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky), is subject to the causal cruelty of her abus"
Sound of Falling is set in a farm courtyard and nearby river in Germany's Altmark region, spanning from the First World War past the end of Communism. Four German girls from different generations confront confined, half-occluded family dynamics and interior struggles across overlapping temporal dramas. The film observes each young character with emotional precision, allowing one generation's wounds to echo into the next and building a visual and narrative palimpsest. The work unfolds like a folk-horror of German history, positioning its girls as liminal figures nearing ghosthood while revealing war's horrors in brief, devastating glimpses.
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