India, Dec. 15 -- Sound of Falling (In Die Sonne Schauen), the second feature from German director Mascha Schilinski, is unlike anything put to screen. Premiering at the International Film Festival of Kerala, it is a bold, boundary-pushing endeavour where four generations of women unlock secrets of shared grief, anger, and inevitable patriarchal forces. It jumps between places and people, lets go off any excessive plot points as the action unfolds in the periphery of a rural farmhouse in the north German countryside.

Schilinski's control over the language of the visual medium is unapologetically ambitious and opaque, letting go off of any plot-based intrigue. It has a ghostly, miraculous gaze where we are either watching the women lookin...