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Cannes One To Watch: German Filmmaker Mascha Schilinski Talks Buzz Movie ‘Sound Of Falling’, Which Was Snapped Up Early By Cannes & MK2 As A Bold New Voice

German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski talks to Deadline about her upcoming Cannes debut film 'The Sound of Falling.'

Schilinski’s film was snapped up early by the festival and created a lot of buzz under its original title: The Doctor Says I’ll Be Alright, But I’m Feelin’ Blue. So, after about a year we thought we really nailed it down: “This is exactly who should be there.” In the end, it became a mix of people who had never been in front of a camera before and experienced actors that we cast to make the whole thing coherent. But a few weeks after the shoot, I went back to tidy up a little, put some things in order, and in one of the outbuildings of the farm I found a diary from 1910 — which is a period we cover in the film — by someone called Bertha.

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