The Major Tones

Los tonos mayores

Director: Ingrid Pokropek
Country: Argentina, Spain

2023 | 101 min. | Spanish
Synchronization in German
FSK 6
Age recommendation: ab 10

Cast_ Sofía Clausen, Pablo Seijo, Lina Ziccarello, Santiago Ferreira, Mercedes Halfon, Walter Jakob Screenplay_ Ingrid Pokropek Camera_ Ana Roy Producer_ Iván Moscovich, Juan Segundo Álamos, Ingrid Pokropek, Magdalena Schavelzon, Pablo Piedras, Miguel Molina, Adán Aliaga Rights_ Bendita Film Sales

Running after a mystery. In her exciting quest for the solution, 14-year-old Ana almost loses sight of the people who love her.

One day, Ana feels strange rhythmic pulsations in the metal plate that was implanted in her arm following an accident. Puzzled, the 14-year-old wonders what they could mean. First she thinks they’re musical tones and uses them to compose the “Heartbeat Song” with her friend Lepa. But then a young soldier tells her that the pulsations could also be Morse code. Ana thus becomes convinced that she is receiving a secret message via her arm. Trying everything to decode this message, she embarks on an adventurous journey across her hometown of Buenos Aires – and ever further away from the people who love her. Thrilling.

Director

Ingrid Pokropek, born in 1994, is a director, producer, writer, and teacher. After several short films, including ›Electric Boy‹ (2021) and ›Shendy Wu: A Diary‹ (2019), › Los tonos mayores‹ is her debut feature. It celebrated its world premiere at this year’s Berlinale.

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