Mascha Schilinski

Directing

Mascha Schilinski

Born

1984-01-01 (42)

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

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,…

Known for

Behind the camera

Sound of Falling poster
6.9

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

2025

Sound of Falling poster
6.9

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

2025

Dark Blue Girl poster
7.2

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

2017

Dark Blue Girl poster
7.2

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

2017

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NR

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Das Gefühl

2014

The Cat poster
NR

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

2015

The Cat poster
NR

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

2015