The Major Tones
Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
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1h 41m
It’s winter break in Buenos Aires, and fourteen-year-old Ana makes an odd discovery. The metal plate that she has had in her arm since suffering an accident as a child is all of a sudden acting as an antenna and receiving strange Morse code messages. She teams up with a young soldier to decipher the signals, transforming her holiday into a mysterious, obsessive quest.
DIRECTED BY INGRID POKROPEK
ARGENTINA | 2023 | SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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