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Locarno Entry ‘Phantoms of July,’ From Rising German Director Julian Radlmaier, Picked Up by Bendita Film Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
Locarno Entry ‘Phantoms of July,’ From Julian Radlmaier, to Bendita Film Sales
Locarno main competition title “Phantoms of July,” the latest from fast-rising German director Julian Radlmaier, has been picked up for international by Bendita Film Sales. A final section focuses on Neda (Maral Keshavarz), an Iranian filmmaker now aspiring travel YouTuber and asylum seeker who is convinced that she recognized an old friend from Tehran in an equally enigmatic street sweeper. Sluiced by an ironic bucolic idyll piano music, “Phantoms of July” suggests Germany’s still patronised and put upon workers are natural friends not enemies of its equally marginalized refugees.
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