Interview With "Sound Of Falling" Filmmaker Mascha Schilinski

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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"Sound Of Falling" is a German drama film co-written and directed by Mascha Schilinski. Starring Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Laeni Geiseler, Susanne Wuest, Luise Heyer, and Lea Drinda, it follows four generations of girls connected by a farm in the Altmark region of Germany. The film premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. It has been selected as the German entry for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming 98th Academy Awards, making the Oscar shortlist for that category, as well as for Best Cinematography by Fabian Gamper. Mascha Schilinski was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about her work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from MUBI and is up for your consideration for the 98th Academy Awards in all eligible categories. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm listening to the next best picture podcast, and this is Nadia Dalamonte's interview with the director and writer for sound of falling. Asha Jalidsky. I've often so done, as would I not make me look. There was actually not, that she had how she had how she me to watch. Hello. Oh, okay. Well, thank you, thank you, Masha, for joining the Next Best Picture podcast today. I am so excited to talk to you about this incredible film that you've made here, Sound of Falling. And you've given us generations of womanhood over a period of 100 years in one feature where memories and imaginations intersect in these incredible ways.
0:57.7	And it was such a moving experience.
1:00.2	And before we dive into the film, I'd love to start by asking you about your cinematic influences
1:06.2	and just in general, which movies or filmmakers have inspired and moved you over the years?
1:12.2	Oh, yes. I mean, many, so many. I think, of course, always Bergman and Kislovsky.
1:22.8	So he's one of my favorites. And yeah, I think these bows are the most important ones for me.
1:32.2	Yeah, and I think Sound of Falling, it feels like a film destined to become part of cinema history as well.
1:37.6	It's very rich in detail, very expansive in scope.
1:40.9	And I'm curious to know what sparked the idea for the film, and how did you and
1:45.3	Louise Peter discover it and piece the story together?
1:48.6	Yeah, so we were discussing for a long time very subtle questions, like what is written into
1:58.0	our bodies over time and what determines us long before we were even born.
2:06.7	And we wanted to explore more, or we had these questions about this phenomenon of transgenerational
2:16.1	trauma and we wanted to explore more about it.
2:19.8	But we were not sure how to turn it into a film.
2:24.4	And so we, because all these things that we were interested in were very more invisible from nature.
2:32.6	So always like literarish a quantity.
2:35.9	More of a literary quality.
2:38.4	Yeah.
2:38.6	And then COVID hit and we escaped the city, Berlin,
2:46.7	and we're going to the countryside.
2:56.4	And there was this farm, this was the three-orat of films which turned into the location for the film.
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