A secluded four-sided farmstead in the Altmark region. For over a century, the walls have breathed the lives of the people who live here, their tastes, their existence in time. Mascha Schilinski's film, celebrated in Cannes and awarded the Jury Prize, tells the story of four women from different eras—Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Nelly—whose lives are eerily intertwined. Each of them experiences their childhood or youth on this farm, but as they wander through their own present, traces of the past reveal themselves to them – unspoken fears, repressed traumas, buried secrets. Alma discovers that she was named after her deceased sister and believes she must follow the same fate. Erika loses herself in a dangerous fascination with her injured uncle. Angelika balances between a death wish and a lust for life, trapped in a fragile family system. Finally, Nelly, who grows up in the apparent security of the present, is haunted by intense dreams and the unconscious burden of the past. When a tragic event repeats itself on the farm, the boundaries between past and present begin to blur.

Mascha Schilinski has created a great, epoch-making film, a grand tour into the finest ramifications of the emotional worlds of these four women. A film that drills deep into our perception and stages the sensation there.

Cinema is too small a word for what this sprawling yet intimate epic achieves in its ethereal, unnerving brilliance; forget Cannes, forget the Competition, forget the whole year, even — Sound of Falling is an all-timer... If Terence Davies and David Lynch made a movie together, it would look and sound like this. Quite frankly, there’s no higher praise than that. - Deadline

No finer point of craft, performance or poetic nuance has been rushed or neglected in a film that ultimately sounds a warning against the dimming or blunting or de-specification of memory — not just for oneself, but for communities or lineages with more shared stories than they might think, but an inclination to clam up and carry on. - Variety