THE MAJOR TONES
A film by Ingrid Pokropek
It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.
Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Genre: Coming-of-Age, fantasy
Country: Argentina, Spain
Language: Spanish
Available subtitles: English, Italian
Runtime: 101 minutes
Original title: Los tonos mayores
Ingrid Pokropek (Buenos Aires, 1994) is a director, producer, writer, and teacher. She directed the short films Electric Boy (2021) and Shendy Wu: A Diary (2019), among others. She produced the films Clementina (2022, Agustín Mendilaharzu & Constanza Feldman), La Edad Media (2022, Luciana Acuña and Alejo Moguillansky), and Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella), the best film of 2023 according to Cahiers du Cinéma. The Major Tones (2022) is her first feature film.
FILMOGRAPHY
2023 The Major Tones
2021 Electric Boy (short)
2019 Shendy Wu: A Diary (short)
CAST
Sofía Clausen
Pablo Seijo
Lina Ziccarello
Santiago Ferreira
Mercedes Halfon
Walter Jakob
CREW
Director: Ingrid Pokropek
Screenplay: Ingrid Pokropek
Cinematography: Ana Roy
Editing: Miguel de Zuviría
Sound: Gabriel Real, Javier Fernandez Jensen
Music: Gabriel Chwojnik
Executive Producers: Iván Moscovich, Juan Segundo Álamos, Ingrid Pokropek, Magdalena Schavelzon, Pablo Piedras, Miguel Molina, Adán Aliaga
Production Company: 36 caballos, Gong Cine, Jaibo Films
2023
Mar del Plata IFF | Argentinan Competition · FEISAL Special Mention Award
2024
Berlin International Film Festival | Berlinale Generation Kplus
Málaga Film Festival | Zonacine Official Selection · Best Ibero-American Film · Best Actress
Miami Film Festival | First Feature Competition
Stockholm Film Festival Junior | Feature Film Competition 11-19
Jeonju International Film Festival | International Competition · Grand Prize
Seattle IFF | Ibero-American Competition · Special Jury Prize
Shanghai IFF | International Panorama
Costa Rica International Film Festival | De jóvenes
Filmfest München | CineKindl Competition
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival | Third Kind
Seoul International Children’s Film Festival | BIKY Youth
Giffoni Film Festival | Generator +13 Competition · Special Award
Sarajevo Film Festival | TeenArena
Puerto Rico International Film Festival
Manusia Film Festival
Seoul International Children’s Film Festival | International Feature Competition
Aranya Waves Film Festival | Gravity Zero
Rosario Latin American Film Festival · Best Feature Film
International Film Festival for Children and Youth | Feature Film Competition
Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon | Nouvelle Vague Competition
Korea Latin American Film Festival
Transmutación Festival de Cine Contemporáneo | New Horizon Competition
Bosphorus Film Festival | International Feature Film Competition
São Paulo International Film Festival | New Directors Competition
Generation Fleadh
Latinamerika i Fokus Film Festival
Tallgrass Film Festival | Woman Filmmaker Spotlight
Cinekid Festival | Youth Jury Competition
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival | Young Film Festival
A heart-warming film that moves fluidly between the emotional and the inexplicable, the real and the fantastic.
Miguel Martín Maestro, El antepenúltimo mohicano
The film immerses the viewer in a universe where the challenges of adolescence intertwine with an enigma that stimulates the imagination.
Juan Pablo Russo, EscribiendoCine
A tender and subtle Coming-Of-Age story.
Diego Lerer, MicropsiaCine