

A college student haunted by the auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia finds a connection with a deaf classmate in a library and makes a lot of noise to get her attention.
Direction
Sy Huq crafts entire love stories in the negative space of sound.
Sound
Brilliant audio design contrasting internal chaos with external silence.
Director
Sy Huq
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Short films like this rarely get theatrical play but often outperform features at festivals for emotional precision. It's part of a wave of 2010s-20s cinema centering disabled and neurodivergent romance with authenticity rather than inspiration porn.
The title's double meaning — things that fall literally (objects) and figuratively (people, sanity, in love) — reveals itself in the sound design's architecture. Huq has spoken about recording actual schizophrenia simulations for the audio track.