As part of this edition’s theme Cinema & Sound, the 5 films of "The Sound Barrier" program put the auditory sense at the core of their stories, plots and characters. Yet it is through the notion of "barrier" that you ought to really comprehend them: much like a sonic boom happens when a plane crosses the 300 meters per second mark, each of these films breaks some type of limit, be it physical (confinement in As the Wind Says, language in Earth Is All Melody), emotional (grief in Bird Sounds, rage in Chorus of the Wounded Birds) or experiential (Go With the Flow).