Mascha Schilinski
Directing
Biography
Mascha Schilinski (born 1984) is a German director and screenwriter. Schilinski was born in Berlin to a German filmmaker mother and a French construction worker father. She was a child actor in her youth. After dropping out of high school, she worked for a traveling circus before pursuing film. She graduated from the screenwriting program at the Filmschule Hamburg Berlin in 2008, and later studied directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Schilinski began her career as a casting director and freelance writer. In 2017, she directed Dark Blue Girl, which premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the GWFF Best First Feature Award. The following year, she served on the jury of Filmkunstfest MV. Her second feature film, Sound of Falling, was screened in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Known For
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.
SOKO Köln
Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.
Sound of Falling
Luca is a strong-willed, soulful seven-year-old. After a two-year separation, her parents take her on a trip to pack up and sell their vacation home on a quiet island in the Aegean. Once there, her parents’ romantic connection is reignited. This newfound intimacy unsettles the family dynamic, as Luca suddenly ceases to be the center of attention. With childish cleverness and determination, she plays her parents against each other, intent on keeping her place as the center of their worlds.
Dark Blue Girl
The Cat is a drama that takes us into the world of Romy and her mother, who are trapped in a complex network of dependencies and deadlock behavior patterns.
The Cat
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