An independent jury of experts appointed by German Films selected Sound of Falling to represent Germany at the Academy Awards in the best international feature film category. The film spans a century and interweaves the lives of four women—Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s) and Nelly (2020s)—on a farm in the Altmark region of Saxony-Anhalt. A tragic event repeats on the farm, blurring past and present and exposing unspoken fears, repressed traumas and buried family secrets. The jury described the film as formally uncompromising, emotionally existential and artistically unique. The film won the Cannes Jury Prize, ex aequo with Sirat.
'Sound of Falling' is formally uncompromising, emotionally existential and artistically unique without any parallel in German and international cinema," said the jury in charge of selecting the film that will represent Germany at the upcoming Academy Awards in the best international feature film category. "Spanning a century, the film interweaves the lives of four women who struggle against confinement, violence and social constraints.
The film, originally titled "In die Sonne schauen" in German, is set in a farm in the Altmark region, which became part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt after World War II. It tells the story of four women from different eras Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s) and Nelly (2020s) who are eerily connected through unspoken fears, repressed traumas and buried family secrets. A tragic event repeats itself on the farm, leading the boundaries between the past and the present to blur.
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