The scope and ambition of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling (now streaming on Mubi) earned it the Jury Prize at Cannes 2025, sharing the award with the similarly unforgettable Sirat. But where the latter film haunts us with terrifying imagery, Sound of Falling cloaks its audience in a ruminative mood, an invisible weighted blanket of unspoken generational pain endured by four generations of women at a farm in Germany’s Altmark region.