Sound of Falling
- Sunday, Feb 15, 2026, 3:00pm
Screening location: SIFF Film Center – 167 Republican St, Seattle (located within the Seattle Center, just north of Climate Pledge Arena / east of KEXP and The Vera Project)
In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory.
Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.
Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?
In German with English subtitles.
Named one of the ten best films of 2025 by The New Yorker, Variety, Vulture, Slant, and more!
Crtic’s Pick! “Unfold[s] like 100 years of home video footage that were shot by the family ghosts… rich and mesmeric…” David Ehrlich, IndieWire
“It’s an astonishing work, twining together the lives of four generations of families with an intricacy and intimacy that feels like an act of psychic transmission.” Alison Willmore, Vulture
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen a filmmaker wield the tools of her craft with such an ingenious and committed sense of mischief… [Sound of Falling] is both disorienting and enveloping; it knocks you off your feet and then sweeps you up again.” Justin Chang, The New Yorker