{"id":26751,"date":"2026-05-29T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/26751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T23:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:21:17","slug":"sound-of-falling-wins-german-film-awards-mascha-schilinski-period-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/26751\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound of Falling Wins German Film Awards Mascha Schilinski Period Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSound of Falling<\/a>, Mascha Schilinski\u2019s experimental period drama<\/a> tracing the lives of four young women from four different epochs in rural East Germany, swept the German Film Awards<\/a>, the Lolas, winning 10 Lolas including best film and best director for Schilinski. <\/p>\n

\n\tSchilinski\u2019s sophomore feature, which premiered in Cannes last year, winning the jury prize, was the frontrunner going into the 2026 Lolas and it won in every category where it was on the nomination sheet. \u0130lker \u00c7atak\u2018s Berlin Film Festival winner Yellow Letters<\/a>, which had nine nominations to Sound of Falling\u2018s 11, was nearly shut out, picking up just the runner-up Silver Lola for best film and the prize for best score for composer Marvin Miller.<\/p>\n

\n\tSimon Verhoeven\u2019s comedy Ach, diese L\u00fccke, diese entsetzliche L\u00fccke, picked up two acting trophies: Best Actress for 85-year-old Senta Berger, a grande dame of German cinema (and Simon Verhoeven\u2019s mother), who accepted her first-ever Lola in Berlin Friday night, and Michael Wittenborn, another beloved veteran performer, who played her on-screen husband. <\/p>\n

\n\tBest acting honors went to August Diehl for The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,<\/a> directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, in which he plays the infamous Nazi doctor on the run in South America after the Second World War.<\/p>\n

\n\tActor Christian Friedel (The Zone of Interest,\u00a0The White Lotus) hosted the 76th edition of the German Film Awards<\/a> in what was a surprisingly emotional and sharply political ceremony. <\/p>\n

\n\tLegendary German director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Pina, Perfect Days) received an honorary Lola for his life\u2019s work. He used his speech to turn self-critical, reflecting on decisions made throughout his 60 years in cinema. In particular, Wenders spoke about a scene from his 1975 film Wrong Move, which includes a topless shot of actress Nastassja Kinski, who was just 13 at the time. Wenders said he wouldn\u2019t shoot that scene today and that he was \u201cstruggling\u201d with the question of whether to permanently cut it out of the film, asking the younger filmmakers in the audience for help resolving the issue.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe audience at the Berlin Messe gave a standing ovation to Tricia Tuttle when she took the stage to present the Best Director honor. It was a show of support for the Berlin Film Festival director, who nearly lost her job <\/a>earlier this year amid a campaign, led by the right-wing press, to topple her for pro-Palestinian statements made by one of this year\u2019s Berlinale winners. Ingo Fliess, producer on Yellow Letters, used his Silver Lola acceptance speech to directly call out German Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer, sitting in the audience, who had put pressure on Tuttle to resign. <\/p>\n

\n\tA full list of German Film Award winners follows. <\/p>\n

\t\tLola for Best Film \t<\/p>\n

\n\tSound of Falling, dir. Mascha Schilinski <\/p>\n

\t\tSilver Lola For Best Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tYellow Letters, dir. \u0130lker \u00c7atak<\/p>\n

\t\tBronze Lola For Best Film \t<\/p>\n

\n\tAch, diese L\u00fccke, diese entsetzliche L\u00fccke, dir. Simon Verhoeven<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Director\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMascha Schilinski for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Documentary \t<\/p>\n

\n\tSiri Hustvedt \u2013 Dance Around the Self<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Children\u2019s Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCircus Boy<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Actor\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAugust Diehl for The Disappearance of Josef Mengele<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Actress\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSenta Berger for Ach, diese L\u00fccke, diese entsetzliche L\u00fccke<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Supporting Actress\t<\/p>\n

\n\tLena Urzendowsky for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Supporting Actor\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Wittenborn for Ach, diese L\u00fccke, diese entsetzliche L\u00fccke<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Cinematography\t<\/p>\n

\n\tFabian Gamper for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Editing\t<\/p>\n

\n\tEvelyn Rack for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Sound Design\t<\/p>\n

\n\tClaudio Demel, Billie Mind, Kai Tebbel, Sebastian Heyser, J\u00fcrgen Schulz for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Score\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMarvin Miller for Yellow Letters<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Costume Design\t<\/p>\n

\n\tSabrina Kr\u00e4mer for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Production Design\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCosima Vellenzer, Maike Kiefer for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Hair and Make-Up\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAnne Marie Walther, Irnina Schwarz for Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Visual Effects\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Wortmann, Frank Schlegel for Momo<\/p>\n

\t\tBest Score\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMarvin Miller for Yellow Letters<\/p>\n

\t\tAudience Prize for Most Successful Film\t<\/p>\n

\n\tManitou\u2019s Canoe, dir. Michael \u201cBully\u201d Herbig<\/p>\n

\t\tLifetime Achievement Lola\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWim Wenders<\/p>\n

\t\tBernd Eichinger Prize \t<\/p>\n

\n\tThomas W\u00f6bke, Philipp Trauer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski\u2019s experimental period drama tracing the lives of four young women from four different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9524,1004,5,355,1011],"class_list":["post-26751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-awards","tag-german-film-awards","tag-germany","tag-international","tag-sound-of-falling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}