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A slap, a prank and four secret histories: such is the arc of Sound of Falling. Director Mascha Schilinski’s jagged, heady film is a dark collage of girlhood through time, most clearly held together ...

Mascha Schilinski’s fragmentary look into the lives of four generations of German women – each affected by violence and abuse in different ways – is as unsettling as it is breathtaking.

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Set over the 20th and 21st centuries, Mascha Schilinski’s unsettling drama tells the stories of four German girls, exploring cycles of family secrecy and abuse. Here she explains her fascination with ...

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