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Cannes Competition Starts With an Instant Sensation as ‘Sound of Falling’ Premieres to Rave Reviews and Palme d’Or Buzz
'Sound of Falling,' directed by German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski, kicking off the competition slate at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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. 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. “Sound of Falling” is produced by Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt and Lasse Scharpen (for Studio Zentral) with ZDF/Das Kleine Fernsehspiel (Burkhard Althoff and Melvina Kotios) and funded by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM) and Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF).
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