Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the movie awards season’s most intriguing scripts continues with Mascha Schilinski’s Jury Prize-winning feature at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Sound of Falling (Original title: In die Sonne schauen), an impressionistic drama that chronicles the…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA and management firm Ithaka Media have scored a coup with the signing of German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski, whose sophomore film Sound Of Falling made waves at Cannes last year. Germany’s International Oscar hopeful won the Jury Prize at the festival and received some rave…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first U.S. trailer for German Oscar hopeful Sound Of Falling, which opens stateside in mid-January. Mascha Schilinski's Cannes competition title and Jury Prize winner is set on a secluded four-sided farmstead in Germany. The film follows four women, separated by decades…

Just before lockdown struck in 2020, the Best International Feature Film category was about to break wide open, with South Korea's surprise Best Picture winner Parasite bringing director Bong Joon Ho a near-unprecedented haul of four statuettes, from six nominations. The film's success was across the…

Oliver Laxe's Moroccan desert rave-set drama Sirāt, Mascha Schilinski's critically acclaimed first feature Sound of Falling and Yorgos Lanthimos' black comedy Bugonia lead the art and craft nominations for the 2026 European Film Awards. The films were each nominated in five of the eight…

As the lights go up on the last of the 22 films in Competition this year, Deadline’s critics reflect on the potential winners in what must be the strongest lineup in recent years… PETE HAMMOND I don't think I've seen a Cannes Film Festival with so many enthusiastic reviews from the press…

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 4 with the world premieres of Eddington, directed by Ari Aster; Bono: Stories of Surrender, and Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of Water. Aster’s Eddington premiered today, featuring Joaquin Phoenix as a small-town Sheriff in a New…

Despite a small turnout by press this morning for the first feature press conference of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, journos in the room gave Sound of Falling filmmaker Mascha Schilinski and cast thunderous applause. The wonder in Cannes is the titles we never see coming, which mushroom into…

Some Cannes Film Festivals take days to get going in terms of critical hits. Not this year. We told you a while ago about the buzz for Mascha Schilinski’s Competition film Sound of Falling. We told you in February that it was a surprise likely entry for Competition, despite Schilinski being…

One is the loneliest number in Mascha Schilinski's superb second feature, a fractured reflection on childhood and family that eschews linear narrative for immersive atmosphere, telling the story of four young girls from different eras whose lives play…

A slot in the Cannes Competition is so coveted that even some of the most famous names in film get turned down. With just her second film, Sound of Falling, German director Mascha Schilinski is one of the lucky ones, and will be setting foot on the Croisette for the first time ever. The story is…

EXCLUSIVE: mk2 Films has boarded international sales rights to Cannes Competition entry Sound of Falling, the anticipated sophomore feature from German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski.  We told you back in February that this German-language film was in the running for a Cannes Competition slot and…