Ursula and Neda, an East German waitress with a broken heart, and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, both feel trapped and lonely in their precarious lives. One summer evening, Ursula falls for a mysterious musician from the city, while Neda is convinced that she recognized an old friend from Tehran in an equally enigmatic street sweeper. The winding paths of chance draw the two women together on an unexpected ghost hunt in the mountains... A romantic adventure film about an unlikely friendship and the longing for another life.
Julian Radlmaier
French-German born in Nuremberg in 1984. He 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 of French philosopher Jacques Rancière. Since his first short (‘A Spectre is Haunting Europe’, 2013) and medium length film (‘A Proletarian Winter’s Tale’, 2014), his work gained acclaim at major international festivals. His first feature, ‘Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog’ (2017), premiered in Rotterdam and won the German Film Critics Award for best debut of the year. 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 of the Locarno Film Festival.
DIRECTOR
Julian Radlmaier
SCREENPLAY
Julian Radlmaier
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Faraz Fesharaki
EDITOR
Julian Radlmaier
SOUND
Rainer Gerlach
PRODUCTION
Kirill Krasovski
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Blue Monticola Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
CAST
Clara Schwinning, Maral Keshavarz, Henriette Confurius, Paula Schindler, Kyung-Taek Lie, Ghazal Shojaei, Buksori Lie
RUNNING TIME
90 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
VERSION
V.O. German and Persian with Spanish and English subtitles.
COUNTRY
Germany
CONTACT
Bendita Film Sales
Screenings
V.O. German and Persian with Spanish and English subtitles.
