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Mubi has acquired Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Competition title Sound Of Falling for North America and UK-Ireland distribution from mk2 Films.

The distributor has also bought the film for Turkey and India.

It is the latest deal between the two companies this week, after Mubi bought The Secret Agent for UK-Ireland, Brazil ex-Latin America and India. It also picked up another Competition entry from mk2, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, for UK-Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India prior to the festival.

Sound Of Falling had its world premiere on Wednesday, May 14 as the first Competition title to play in Cannes this year.

German director Mascha Schilinski’s second feature, Sound of Falling (In Die Sonne Schauen), has been acquired by Mubi for North America, UK, Ireland, India, and Turkey.

The pick up follows a bidding war after a world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, according to the film’s producer. And Mubi has been on a streak at Cannes, picking up rights in select markets to The Secret Agent, from writer and director Kleber Mendonça Filho, Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s latest feature film, and Jennifer Lawrence-Robert Pattinson starrer Die My Love for $24 million.

Last year, Mubi had picked up The Substance at Cannes, prepping the title for what would go on to be an Oscar run for Coralie Fargeat’s body horror thriller.

“Mubi is an oasis for everyone who loves cinema. Here arthouse classics stand shoulder to shoulder with new exciting cinema as well as...

Mubi has acquired writer/director Mascha Schilinski’s acclaimed drama “Sound of Falling” after the film’s Cannes debut, marking the distributor’s second major pickup of the festival thus far. It comes on the heels of Mubi nabbing Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love,” a domestic drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson.

“Sound of Falling” follows four girls in Germany, each who spend their youth on the same farm. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.

“Mubi is an oasis for everyone who loves cinema,” Schilinski said in a statement.

“Here arthouse classics stand shoulder to shoulder with new exciting cinema as well as little movie gems that we would otherwise not get to see. We are very happy that ‘Sound of Falling’ is now part of Mubi’s movie family.

A hushed press conference at Cannes turned into a standing ovation this morning when German director Mascha Schilinski introduced her second feature, Sound of Falling. The film follows four young women—Alma, Erika, Angelika and Lenka—each living on the same rural farm during the 1910s, 1940s, 1980s and today. Their stories ripple through unspoken wounds that span generations.

Schilinski and co-writer Louise Peter discovered a photograph of three 1920s farmworkers whose gaze conveyed quiet sorrow. “We felt the melancholy they carried,” Schilinski explained. “That image led us to imagine what history left behind in that house.” The screenplay tracks how small tragedies—a discarded spoon, a whisper in an empty room—can shape descendants’ lives.

Festival critics hailed the film as a Palme d’Or contender after a three-and-a-half-minute ovation at its Grand Lumière debut. Guy Lodge of Variety praised its “astonishing ambition,” while IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called it “mesmerizing.

German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling” debuted on Wednesday afternoon in Cannes, the first film from the competition slate to premiere at the Grand Lumière. If the rave reviews are any indication, it appears the festival already has a major Palme d’Or contender on its hands. The drama is Schilinski’s follow-up to her 2017 debut “Dark Blue Girl.”

While “The Sound of Falling” was met with a standing ovation on the shorter side for the festival (three-and-a-half minutes), the post-screening reaction was more or less hobbled by the theater turning over for the next showing: Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” premiere. Schilinski also quieted the audience down when she took the microphone to thank her cast. The crowd continued to cheer as they exited the theater to make way for the “Mission” premiere.

Variety’s Guy Lodge hailed the movie as a “shattering...

Some Cannes Film Festivals take days to get going in terms of critical hits. Not this year.

We told you a while ago about the buzz for Mascha Schilinski’s Competition film Sound of Falling. We told you in February that it was a surprise likely entry for Competition, despite Schilinski being relatively unknown. Then we told you last month that mK2 had stumped up a large amount to secure the film. There has to be a good reason if Cannes has programmed a film from a relatively unknown filmmaker on Day 2.

The film has just had its debut in Cannes, and the reviews are glowing. It sounds like a very live Palme d’Or contender already. You can check out our review here. Our critic Damon Wise says: “Cinema is too small a word for what this sprawling yet intimate epic achieves in its ethereal, unnerving brilliance; forget Cannes,...

German director Mascha Schilinski brings buzzy “Sound of Falling” to Cannes competition, alongside the ghosts that haunted her when she was writing the feature with Louise Peter on a farm.

“There are spirits and ghosts in us, and ghosts that live on this old farm,” she says.

“When you enter a room, you don’t know what happened there, but you still feel it. That’s how it was when we were writing. This place had been abandoned for 50 years, but everything was still there, including a spoon a farmer put down for the last time.”

It made her think about “the simultaneity of time,” she says. In the film, boarded by MK2, four girls from different time periods over the course of 100 years live out their youth on the farm in Germany’s Altmark region. Eras — and tragedies — blend into each other seamlessly.

“That was very important to me:...

Exclusive: Studio Zentral, the German production company behind Mascha Shilinski’s Cannes competition feature Sound Of Falling, is developing neo-Nazi tale The Aughts penned by Richard Kropf, the writer behind by hit series such as TNT’s 4Blocks and Netflix’s Kleo and Marc Rothemund’s feature Weekend Rebels.

It is one of a number of new projects being readied by the fast growing Berlin and Munich-based Studio Zentral, which is backed by German broadcaster Zdf’s Studios Group.

The Aughts is adapted from the book Nullerjahre by Hendrik Bolz. It is a memoir about a post-reunification adolescence among Neo-Nazis,...

Exclusive: mk2 Films has boarded international sales rights to Cannes Competition entry Sound of Falling, the anticipated sophomore feature from German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski.

We told you back in February that this German-language film was in the running for a Cannes Competition slot and the buzz has been strong. We hear that Anatomy Of A Fall outfit mk2 put down a significant Mg to secure the movie.

The synopsis reads: “Over the course of a century, as four girls from different time periods experience their youth on a German farm, their lives become intertwined until time seems to dissolve.” Above is a first-look image.

“We were simply blown away when we saw Sound of Falling. Mascha Schilinski’s vision is so bold and visceral, this signals the arrival of an exceptional new voice in cinema,” said Fionnuala Jamison of MK2 films.

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Paris-based Loco Films has taken on international sales for Eva Trobisch’s Ivo ahead of the film’s world premiere in Berlin’s Encounters section.

The German filmmaker’s second feature is a drama about tough end-of-life decisions told through the story of a palliative home-care nurse. It follows the titular Ivo who spends her time caring for many different kinds of patients and families as they face the end of their lives.

The German-language film is produced by Studio Zentral/Network Movie’s Lucas Schmidt, Wolfgang Cimera and Lasse Scharpen and co-produced by Trima Films.

It stars Minna Wündrich,...

Be For Films, an independent film sales company based in Brussels, has acquired international rights to German filmmaker Michael Fetter Nathansky’s “Every You Every Me,” which has been selected in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.

“Every You Every Me” won two Work-in-Progress Awards, under its previous title “Mannequins,” at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

The romantic social drama looks at the painful process of falling out of love and the initial magic of falling in love. It poses the question: What if the person you love the most suddenly becomes a stranger in your eyes? Nadine, a dedicated factory worker, tries to revive her relationship by reconnecting with her deepest emotions. But who did she once see in him that she can no longer find?

In a statement, the directors asks: “Do you know the feeling when you look at a strange man and find it bizarre how...

“Let’s start before we kill the term,” joked Jakob Hogel during the opening moments of “The Future of Hybrid Films,” a panel that took place last week at Copenhagen’s Cph:dox. Preempting musty debate about the so-called hybrid genre, where various forms — usually documentary and fiction — are combined in single works, Hogel said, “We should be beyond the point of whether hybrid films exist, are dubious or morally wrong. They exist and who cares?”

Hogel’s dismissal of hybrid handwringing doesn’t mean that the issues posed by such films aren’t being debated in the film industry. It’s just these debates are more likely now to concern issues of funding, marketing and production rather than storytelling ethics or artistic viability. Indeed, the question of just how to promote the hybrid film took center stage as commissioning editors and funders discussed the hybrid films they’ve been involved with.