{"id":180995,"date":"2025-12-12T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180995\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:40:07","slug":"read-screenplay-for-mascha-schilinski-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/180995\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Screenplay For Mascha Schilinski Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDeadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay<\/a> series highlighting the movie awards season\u2019s most intriguing scripts continues with Mascha Schilinski<\/a>\u2018s Jury Prize-winning feature at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival,\u00a0Sound\u00a0of\u00a0Falling\u00a0(Original title: In die Sonne schauen), an impressionistic drama that chronicles the intertwined lives\u00a0of\u00a0four generations\u00a0of\u00a0women inhabiting the same farm in the Altmark region\u00a0of\u00a0northern Germany.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is Germany\u2019s\u00a0official entry for Best International Feature Film<\/a> at the 2026 Oscars. It follows a non-linear narrative, a sensory tone poem exploring how intergenerational trauma and the weight\u00a0of\u00a0history linger within the walls\u00a0of\u00a0a single homestead.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film avoids a traditional chronological plot, instead utilizing a fractured structure to explore the \u201csimultaneity\u00a0of\u00a0time levels,\u201d as Schilinski put it. The narrative follows four protagonists, each separated by decades but linked by the farm, which is set in a historically turbulent region near the River Elbe, a former Iron Curtain border. The protagonists are Alma (Hanna Heckt) in the 1910s, Erika (Lea Drinda) in the 1940s, Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky) in the 1980s, and Lenka (Laeni Geiseler) in the 2020s. Though separated by time, their lives mirror each other, revealing \u201cshared secrets that have been kept hidden.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cycle\u00a0of\u00a0violence and deep-seated family desperation forms the essence\u00a0of\u00a0the \u201ctiny quiet tremors\u201d the script seeks to capture. The action moves fluidly between these eras, observing how the characters \u201csimply live in their worlds,\u201d treating even cruel or strange events as \u201csimply everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-written by Schilinski and Louise Peter, Sound\u00a0of\u00a0Falling is described as an attempt to track down the \u201cgaps in people\u2019s felt experience for which there are no words.\u201d The core\u00a0of\u00a0the film is its focus on the female gaze \u2014 a perspective mostly absent from historical documentation. The filmmakers conducted research that uncovered disturbing historical facts, such as accounts\u00a0of\u00a0dairy maids who \u201chad to be \u2018adjusted\u2019 so that they were harmless to the men,\u201d leading one maid to reflect that she had \u201clived completely in vain.\u201d The characters, therefore, are\u00a0often not living but merely surviving, a plight shared by many people even today.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film explores the profound themes\u00a0of\u00a0intergenerational trauma and the presence\u00a0of\u00a0the gaze\u00a0of\u00a0death, intertwining these women. The characters are perpetually on a quest for \u201cthe longing to exist in this world for once without anything having preceded them.\u201d This yearning is contrasted with the body\u2019s betrayals, such as a blush that makes one\u2019s internal shame visible. Ultimately, the film suggests that while words and sentences fade from memory, the core feelings\u2014the unaddressed historical traumas and familial cruelties\u2014remain present, perpetually echoing within the walls\u00a0of\u00a0the Altmark homestead.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead the screenplay below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the movie awards season\u2019s most intriguing scripts continues with Mascha Schilinski\u2018s Jury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,115048,409,64880,111,139,69,115049,115050],"class_list":{"0":"post-180995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mascha-schilinski","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-mubi","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-read-the-screenplay","16":"tag-sound-of-falling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}