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‘The Major Tones’ and ‘Time to Be Strong’ Claim Jeonju Film Festival’s top Prizes
Korea's ‘Time to Be Strong’ and Argentinian mystery ‘The Major Tones' claim the Jeonju Film Festival's grand prizes.
Directed by Argentina’s Ingrid Pokropek, “The Major Tones” is a mystery film about a youngster with a metal plate in her arm which begins to receive peculiar messages in Morse Code. But it has also been in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, notably its gruelling training system under so-called slave contracts with talent agencies, its difficult working conditions and the sometimes toxic social media that surrounds it. Namkoong Sun Best Actor Prize(joint winners)Choi Seung-eun in “Time to Be Strong”Na Ae-jin in “Silver Apricot” CGV Award “Sister Yujeong,” dir.
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