Screen’s Cannes 2025 jury grid has officially kicked off, with both Mascha Schilinski’s Sound Of Falling and Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors
Screen’s Cannes 2025 jury grid has officially kicked off, with both Mascha Schilinski’s Sound Of Falling and Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors posting mighty scores.
German drama The Sound Of Falling debuted with an average of 2.8. Schilinski’s second feature received four scores of four (excellent), but Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee dragged the average down with a one star (destitute).
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It is the strongest start to the jury grid since 2021 when Leos Carax’s Annette started with a 3.0 average.
The Sound Of Falling is Schilinski’s second feature and follows follows four girls from different time periods growing up on a German farm, as their lives intertwine until time seems to dissolve.
Next up is Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, landing with a mighty 3.1 rating. The film received eight scores of three (good), plus fours from Meduza’s Anton Dolan, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, and Screen’s own critic. Ahmed Shawkey from fifan.com was the dissenting voice with a score of one.
The Ukrainian filmmaker’s latest film focuses on a prosecutor who sets out to challenge the system during Stalin’s Great Terror in 1937 after discovering a letter from a prisoner that is a desperate plea for assist.
While this is Loznitsa’s first fiction feature to play in Competition, he has had three documentaries on the jury grid previously – 2010’s My Joy (2.2), 2012’s In The Fog (2.9) and 2017’s A Gentle Creature (2.3).
Next up in Competiton is Dominik Moll’s Case 137 and Oliver Laxe’s Sirat.
The jury grid is updating live on screendaily.com, in addition to being printed in our Cannes dailies.
The score to beat from Screen’s 2024 jury grid is 3.4 – for Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig. The leading score ever on the grid remains the 3.8 for Burning in 2018.
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