*Sound Of Falling* spans a century and several generations of a family from the Altmark region. The film is set entirely on this family’s farm. We first see the farm around 1910. This might sound like a linear narrative, but that is precisely what director Mascha Schilinski avoids with her extensive material. She does not tell the story chronologically. Instead, she interweaves the generations and links them once again through the setting – the farm. Almost like an Impressionist painting. The timeline unravels, the past overlaps with the present. Almost like a ghost story featuring a haunted house and a ghost – that is the story. In every generation, there is a curious young girl surrounded by death on all sides. And every generation struggles with unspoken, forbidden longings. Our task is to find out who these people are and what era we are in. It always comes down to the ‘life lived in vain’ – an expression that crops up time and again. Floors creak, flies buzz, a deafening silence. What is it? The feelings we never admit to? Time in all its relentlessness? Time does its work, people are forgotten, and yet... something remains. Something around us.
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