Sound of Falling
February 15, 2026
February 15, 2026 | 3pm | SIFF Film Center
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema
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.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
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?
Named one of the ten best films of 2025 by The New Yorker, Variety, Vulture, Slant, and more!
“It’s an astonishing work, twining together the lives of four generations of families with an intricacy and intimacy that feels like an act of psychic transmission.” — Alison Willmore, Vulture
- Director: Mascha Schilinski
- Principal Cast: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt
- Country: Germany
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 149 min.
- Language: German with English subtitles
- Has Subtitles: Yes