An East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm feel trapped and lonely in their lives, longing for something more. Or maybe for something, or someone, else. You can, cinematically, meet both young women in the East German town of Sangerhausen, the setting of Phantoms of July ( Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen , which in English means “Longing in Sangerhausen”), the new film from up-and-coming German auteur Julian Radlmeier ( Bloodsuckers – A Marxist Vampire Comedy , Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog ).

When it world premieres in the competition program of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Thursday, Aug. 7, audiences can look forward to a constantly surprising audiovisual journey, a tender scavenger hunt through the province full

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