Name: Sound of Falling at Speed Cinema
Start: 2026-03-27T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-27T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Speed Art Museum

Sound of Falling
Directed by Mascha Schilinski
Friday, March 27, 6 pm
Saturday, March 28, 3 pm
$12 | $8 Speed members
“Mascha Schilinski’s superb feature is a masterclass in ethereal, unnerving brilliance.”—Damon Wise, Deadline
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? 2025, Germany, DCP, in German with English subtitles, 155 minutes. Recommended for 17+.