MUBI, the global film distributor, streaming service and production company, acquired “Sound of Falling,” the audacious, breathtaking second feature from writer and director Mascha Schilinski (“Dark Blue Girl”), in North America, UK, Ireland, India, and Turkey, after a competitive bidding war. The film received its World Premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. MUBI will announce release plans in the near future.

mk2 Films is handling international sales.

Praised as “astonishing” and “the best film at Cannes” (NY Magazine/Vulture) and “an all-timer” (Deadline), “Sound of Falling” stars Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Susanne Wuest, and Luise Heyer. The film was co-written by Louise Peter, and produced by Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt and Lasse Scharpen of Studio Zentral, co-produced by ZDF/Das Kleine Fernsehspiel and funded by MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, BKM-Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien and Deutscher Filmförderfonds.

Director Mascha Schilinski said, “MUBI is an oasis for everyone who loves cinema. Here arthouse classics stand shoulder to shoulder with new exciting cinema as well as little movie gems that we would otherwise not get to see. We are very happy that ‘Sound of Falling’ is now part of MUBI’s movie family. I accompanied and protected the movie until the last moment. Now it was allowed to celebrate its world premiere in competition at the Festival de Cannes. I wish ‘Sound of Falling’ an exciting journey out into the world under the MUBI umbrella.”

Fionnuala Jamison, Managing Director, mk2 Films said, “Working with MUBI always feels less like closing a deal and more like continuing a conversation. We share a deep respect for cinema in all its forms, and this latest collaboration is another step in a relationship built on mutual curiosity and creative trust.”

Mascha Schilinski is represented by Talent Republic Agency/Patricia Barona.

Sypnosis

Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.

Director’s Bio

Mascha Schilinski is a writer and director born in Berlin. She completed the “Drehbuch-Masterclass” at the Filmschule Hamburg and worked as a writer. Schilinksi then began her film directing studies at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Her award-winning medium-length film “Die Kaize” (“The Cat”) was made in her second year of study. In her third year of study, she directed her feature film “Die Tochter” (“Dark Blue Girl”). The film premiered at the Berlinale in 2017 and was nominated for the GWFF Award – Best First Feature. “Die Tochter” (“Dark Blue Girl”) screened at more than forty festivals worldwide and won several international awards.

In 2023, she and her co-writer Louise Peter won the Thomas Strittmatter Award for their screenplay “Sound of Falling.”

Crew:

Director of Photography: Fabian Gamper
Costume Designer: Sabrina Krämer
Production Designer: Cosima Vellenzer
Key Hair and Make-up Artist: Anne-Marie Walther, Irina Schwarz
Production Sound Mixer: Claudio Demel
Montage: Evelyn Rack
Music: Michael Fiedler, Eike Hosenfeld
Supervising Sound Editor: Billie Mind
Sound Editor: Billie Mind, Jürgen Schulz
Re-recording Mixer: Kai Tebbel
Casting: Jacqueline Rietz, Karimah El-Giamal

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