Sound of Falling - Expat Cinema Rotterdam
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
A remote farmhouse in the German Altmark. Four girls from different eras — Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s) and Lenka (2020s) — each spend their childhood between the same, weathered walls.
As they wander through their own present, echoes of the past reverberate through the hallways: unspoken fears, suppressed traumas, buried secrets. Alma discovers she was named after her deceased sister and fears she will meet the same fate. Erika becomes entangled in a dangerous fascination with her disabled uncle. Angelika, trapped within an unstable family, walks the line between a longing for death and a hunger for life. And Lenka, growing up in apparent safety, struggles to find her place within her family and her new surroundings. Despite the years that separate them, their lives seem mysteriously intertwined. When a tragic event on the farm repeats itself, the boundaries between past and present begin to dissolve.
Sound of Falling is a haunting drama about four generations of girls, bound and imprisoned by a shared past. Through small keyholes, crooked corridors and murky water, we are drawn into their inner worlds — filled with restless turmoil, subjective memories and concealed traumas.
Director Mascha Schilinski set out with her exceptional second feature to cast a female gaze on rural German life across the past century, searching for quiet, intimate suffering alongside the grand events of national history. Her arresting directorial vision did not go unnoticed: Sound of Falling won the Jury Prize at Cannes and received international acclaim for its dreamlike cinematography and supernatural sound design.
- 19:00
Kies tijdstip
- filmspecial
Miss seeing international films because you can’t yet keep up with the Dutch subtitles? Want to meet fellow expats and new Dutch folks? Love cinema? Then this is the event for you! Join Expat Cinema Rotterdam for the best international art house cinema with English subtitles.
A remote farmhouse in the German Altmark. Four girls from different eras — Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s) and Lenka (2020s) — each spend their childhood between the same, weathered walls.
As they wander through their own present, echoes of the past reverberate through the hallways: unspoken fears, suppressed traumas, buried secrets. Alma discovers she was named after her deceased sister and fears she will meet the same fate. Erika becomes entangled in a dangerous fascination with her disabled uncle. Angelika, trapped within an unstable family, walks the line between a longing for death and a hunger for life. And Lenka, growing up in apparent safety, struggles to find her place within her family and her new surroundings. Despite the years that separate them, their lives seem mysteriously intertwined. When a tragic event on the farm repeats itself, the boundaries between past and present begin to dissolve.
Sound of Falling is a haunting drama about four generations of girls, bound and imprisoned by a shared past. Through small keyholes, crooked corridors and murky water, we are drawn into their inner worlds — filled with restless turmoil, subjective memories and concealed traumas.
Director Mascha Schilinski set out with her exceptional second feature to cast a female gaze on rural German life across the past century, searching for quiet, intimate suffering alongside the grand events of national history. Her arresting directorial vision did not go unnoticed: Sound of Falling won the Jury Prize at Cannes and received international acclaim for its dreamlike cinematography and supernatural sound design.
