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 but united by trauma, who uncover the truth behind its weathered walls.
Deadline’s Damon Wise previously called the film “superb” and “a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance”. The jury which selected the film to be Germany’s Oscar entry described it as “formally uncompromising, emotionally existential, and artistically unique – without any parallel in German and international cinema.”
Co-written by Schilinski and Louise Peter, the film is produced by Studio Zentral (Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt, and Lasse Scharpen) with ZDF/Das Kleine Fernsehspiel (Burkhard Althoff and Melvina Kotios) and with support from Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), and Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF).
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Germany has won the Best International Feature Film Oscar three times, with The Lives of Others (2006), and Nowhere in Africa (2002), and most recently, All Quiet on the Western Front (2023). The Tin Drum (1979) won the award under the West Germany banner. Last year, the country submitted Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, which was nominated but lost out to The Zone of Interest.