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 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,” Schilinski said in a statement on Thursday.
Mubi has yet to unveil release plans for the film about four generations of young women living in the same farmhouse in northeast Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past fill its wall as the womens’ lives begin to mirror each other.
Sound of Falling stars Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Susanne Wuest, and Luise Heyer. The film was co-written by Schilinski and Louise Peter, and produced by Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt and Lasse Scharpen of Studio Zentral.
The Hollywood Reporter critic Jordan Mintzer in his review of Sound of Falling in Cannes called the film “a transfixing chronicle in which the lives of four girls are fused into one long cinematic tone poem, hopping between different epochs without warning, painting a portrait of budding womanhood and rural strife through the ages.”
mk2 Films is handling international sales on the pic. Schilinski, whose first feature film Dark Blue Girl (Die Tochter) premiered in Berlin in 2017, is represented by Talent Republic Agency/Patricia Barona.
