PHANTOMS OF JULY
A film by Julian Radlmaier
An East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm dream of another life and end up on a ghost hunt in the mountains.
Status: Completed
Year: 2025
Genre: Drama, comedy
Country: Germany
Language: German, Iranian
Available subtitles: English
Runtime: 90 min.
Original title: Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen
Born in Nuremberg in 1984, French-German director Julian Radlmaier studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and worked as an assistant to New German Cinema legend Werner Schroeter. He has also edited and translated several writings by French philosopher Jacques Rancière. From his first short and medium-length films, his work has been recognized at major international festivals. His debut feature, Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017), premiered in Rotterdam and won the German Film Critics Award for Best Debut. His second feature, Bloodsuckers (2021), premiered in the Berlinale Encounters competition and received the German Screenplay Award. In 2025, his third feature, Phantoms of July, was invited to the International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival. He lives and works in Berlin.
FILMOGRAPHY
2025 Phantoms of July
2021 Bloodsuckers – A Marxist Vampire Comedy
2017 Self-criticism of a Bourgeois Dog
2014 A Proletarian Winter Tale (middle-lenght)
2013 A Spectre is Haunting Europe (short)
CAST
Clara Schwinning
Maral Keshavarz
Henriette Confurius
Paula Schindler
Ghazal Shojaei
Kyung-Taek Lie
Buksori Lie
Mariene Hauser
Jérémie Galiana
CREW
Director: Julian Radlmaier
Screenplay: Julian Radlmaier
Cinematography: Faraz Fesharaki
Editing: Julian Radlmaier
Sound: Rainer Gerlach, Christian Obermaier, Matthias Lempert
Producer: Kirill Krasovski
Executive Producer: Frank Tönsmann
Production Companies: Blue Monticola Film GmbH, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
2025
Locarno Film Festival | Concorso Internazionale
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