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The 2012 Middle East Festival Forum on Spirituality, Religion and Film
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Using selected film clips, Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz presents a discussion on the representation of spirituality and religion in film. Part of The Edinburgh International Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace Festival 2012. View full details
1 Mar 6.30pm	The Augustine Church, Edinburgh

3 (Drei)
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Revered as the director of Run Lola Run and the forthcoming Cloud Atlas, Tom Tykwer has created a stylish, sophisticated exploration of modern love in 3. Described as 'straight out of Shakespeare via Lubitsch', 3 captures long- term Berlin lovers Hanna and Simon at a point in their relationship when they are restless for something new. Hanna finds her attention straying to research biologist Adam and eventually gives in to temptation. Simon surprises himself with an attraction to the… View full details and ticket info
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50 First Dates
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Charmless reunion of Sandler and Barrymore. The duo were so appealing in The Wedding Singer but this take on Pirandello's Enrico IV fails to recapture past glories. View full details
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85A presents: Jan Svankmajer
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Maverick sound/art collective 85A currently in production on their own film Chernozem ecstatically present the work of genius Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, in all its demented glory! Each short film will be housed inside specially constructed theatres, coaxing Svankmajer's surreal imagery off the screen and into life in front of you. Tailor-made installations, costumed performers and a cosy bar all beckon you 'down to the cellar'. And with the main cinema-space ultimately transforming… View full details and ticket info
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About Her Brother (Otôto)
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Ginko is frustrated with her brother Tetsuro, who dreams of becoming a singer. When he drunkenly sings at Ginko's daughter's wedding she decides she's had enough, but the guilt she feels over her part in his life means she can't quite sever her ties. View full details
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Aboyne and Deeside Festival
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A diverse programme from the wee festival, which has covered theatre, comedy – last year featuring Hardeep Singh Kholi – with exhibitions, workshops, music and film all included. Planned acts include the Bingham Quartet and an appearance from children's author Mairi 'Katie Morag' Hedderwick. View full details
13 Jul–29 Jul Times vary Deeside Theatre will act as main venue, but some events will take pace around Deeside.	Deeside CEC Theatre, Aboyne

AC Projects & OTO Projects Presents …
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This new festival (as yet untitled) is a collaboration between Glasgow's AC Projects and London's OTOProjects, resulting in a nine-day celebration and exploration of songwriting, split between Glasgow, London and Berlin. There are talks, film screenings and workshops as well as performances from carefully selected artists including Michael Gira (Swans), Grouper, Michael Hurley and Josephine Foster. View full details
6 Apr–8 Apr Times vary	Various venues, Glasgow

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed
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The world's first feature-length animated film takes a story from '1001 Arabian Nights'. A rare screening of a film that almost disappeared forever, before a new negative was made from the one remaining print in the 1970s. View full details and ticket info
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The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
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After buying a replica model ship at a flea market, Tintin (Bell) is embroiled in a world of subterfuge. Not since Indy's third outing has Spielberg felt so fresh and unshackled; it feels like a hark back to the heyday of 1980s adventure cinema. View full details
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Airplane!
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Ted Striker endeavours to overcome his problems and fly again when the pilots Rodger and Under flake out on him in this hilarious spoof of every old cliché in every old disaster movie ever made. The laugh-a-minute pacing keeps it flowing along and helps keep the groaning to a minimum. View full details and ticket info
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All Around Us (Gururi no koto)
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When a couple are expecting a baby, they marry. Married life isn't bliss, however, and when he gets a job as a courtroom sketch artist he ends up spending his time drawing some of the most disturbed people in Japan. View full details
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All Divided Selves
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Luke Fowler is a Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at the Serpentine Gallery, London and in February 2012 at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. In 2008 he won the inaugural Derek Jarman Award for experimentation in film. In All Divided Selves Fowler returns to a subject he has tackled before (in What You See is Where You're At, 2001), that of the life and work of Glasgow counter-culture psychiatrist RD Laing. Drawing on an impressive… View full details and ticket info
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All in Good Time
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East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughton's 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union… View full details and ticket info
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Almanya – Welcome to Germany
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Comedy about a Turkish family who came to Germany in the late 60s, and their trip back home when the patriarch of the family buys a holiday house in Turkey. View full details and ticket info
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
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The singing chipmunk trio and their friends the Chipettes find themselves marooned on a desert island. View full details
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Amélie
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Within Jeunet's fantastical world – a reimagining of Paris' oldest quarter, Montmartre – the eccentric adventures of his eponymous heroine unfold in a manner as complex as a Swiss timepiece when Amélie decides to bring happiness to deserving people by playing elaborately benevolent practical jokes on them. A film that celebrates all the little, great things in life. View full details
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An American In Paris
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Splendid – if sometimes garish – romantic musical, with Kelly on top form as a would-be artist kicking up a storm in 'la belle cité'. View full details and ticket info
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Anchors Aweigh
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Forget the slender plot and savour the joyous energy and dazzling dance numbers in one of Gene Kelly's best-loved musicals. The first of three films Kelly made with Frank Sinatra, Anchors Aweigh set a new benchmark for MGM musicals as it follows the romantic trials and tribulations of two sailors on shore leave in Hollywood. Kelly earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his exuberant performance as Joe 'Sea Wolf' Brady, loyal pal and romantic rival to Sinatra's bashful Clarence 'Brooklyn… View full details and ticket info
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And Under That: Margaret Tait Award
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Anne-Marie Copestake is the winner of the 2011 Margaret Tait Award, supported by Creative Scotland and in partnership with LUX. Tonight is the world premiere and only screening of her unique film commission And Under That. And Under That combines the footage and sounds surrounding two women, creating a portrait through the acts of looking and listening. Emerging themes are legacies and patterns of so-called emancipation. The women vocalise fragmented language built from ideas, questions… View full details
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Anonymous
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Director Emmerich dives enthusiastically into a treacly 17th century conspiracy thriller intent on unmasking the true author of Shakespeare's plays. The facts may be suspect but Emmerich combines craftsmanship and a strong cast to create a ripping historical romp. View full details
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Another Earth
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Sombre indie romance involving a planet beyond the sun which is an exact mirror of our own, even down to the lives of its inhabitants. Despite the loopy premise, the startling script by actress Marling and director Cahill is more interested in human interaction than space travel, leading to an effective double-whammy ending. View full details
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ARIKA12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
Date	Location
The second installment of Arika's experimental art-film offering this year takes a look at how ideas of nihilism and darkness permeate music, queer theory, performance art and even neuroscience via a range of performances, talks and films. View full details
24 Feb–26 Feb Times vary	Tramway, Glasgow

ARIKA12 Episode 3: Copying Without Copying
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The last in Arika's series of short festivals is focused on copying and repetition in experimental performances. An informal atmosphere means that discussion of each performance between artist, writer and audience is welcomed. View full details
23 Mar–24 Mar Times vary	Tramway, Glasgow

The Artist
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This joyous, impeccably crafted crowdpleaser about the advent of the talkies melds the tried and tested plot of A Star Is Born to the comic exuberance of Singin' In The Rain, with the result that it is almost impossible not to fall for its charms. View full details
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At Night I Fly
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New Folsom is one of California's maximum security prisons and a place where many inmates are serving life sentences. Swedish director Michel Wenzer opens the door to a different side of prison life than one we usually see on the big screen. He takes a look at Folsom's Arts in Correction programme, a scheme that has been running across prisons in the US since the 1970s. At Night I Fly captures gospel choirs, poetry readings and blues guitar sessions while following a group of characters who… View full details and ticket info
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L'Atalante
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Vigo's mesmeric, influential masterpiece of love, barges and delicate surrealism. Forget Young Adam, this is the best canal-based movie ever. View full details
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Autumn Gold (Herbstgold)
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Training for a sporting World Championship is a formidable task. For Alfred, Jií, Ilse, Gabre and Herbert however there's an added challenge: these athletes are all aged between eighty and 100. Autumn Gold follows the grey-haired group as they prepare to compete in the World Championships in track and field. How will 100-year-old Alfred, a discus thrower from Vienna, fare after being fitted with an artificial knee six months before the competition? Will Jirí, an eighty-two-year-old high… View full details and ticket info
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Babycall
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Fast emerging as one of Europe's most versatile stars, Dragon Tattoo 's Noomi Rapace won the Best Actress prize at the Rome International Film Festival for her intense performance in this gripping psychological thriller. Rapace stars as Anna, a single mother who moves to a secret address in Oslo with her eight-year-old son Anders to escape the boy's violent father. She buys a baby call to check on her sleeping son but finds that it picks up strange noises hinting at the murder of a child. View full details and ticket info
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Backyard
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The Reykjavík music scene is bursting with great bands, from múm and FM Belfast to Hjaltalín and Sin Fang Bous. In the summer of 2009, Árni Rúnar thought it was worth celebrating this abundance of talent and started to plan a gathering of bands in his own backyard. He bought recording equipment, invited all the neighbours round and prepared pizza, cupcakes and pancakes. Imagine Árni's surprise when the idea took on a life of its own and some of the most thrilling Icelandic musicians of his… View full details and ticket info
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Bad Company (Mabudachi)
Date	Location
When a schoolboy is caught stealing, his furious father makes him write an essay to explain himself. When his essay wins a competition, the boy becomes increasingly angry with his father's pride. View full details
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BAFTA in Scotland Event
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Glasgow Film Festival is proud to welcome the participation of BAFTA in Scotland in this year's programme. In this special event, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts bring a major film personality to Scotland to discuss their distinguished career and take questions from the audience. The identity of the guest will be announced after the official launch of GFF12's programme but we think it might be worth purchasing your tickets now as we can promise you a great evening. Part of… View full details and ticket info
21 Feb 6pm Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012.	Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow

Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2
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Barbie returns as surfing champion Merliah, but trouble brews when evil mermaid Eris tries to usurp the Oceana throne. View full details
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Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
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In the late 1980s, fresh-faced and straight out of high school, New York-bred A Tribe Called Quest formed and set about transforming the face of hip hop. Their innovative style would lead them to no fewer than five gold and platinum-selling albums and leave them regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop. Beats, Rhymes and Life explores the history and methods of the group throughout their existence. Beginning on their 2008 reunion tour, we see what 20 years can do… View full details and ticket info
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Beauty (Skoonheid)
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Oliver Hermanus's award-winning second feature is a mesmerising tale of desire and destructive self-loathing. Deon Lotz is unforgettable as Francois, a successful middle-aged Afrikaner businessman whose carefully ordered world is ripped apart at his daughter's wedding when he is introduced to the son of an old friend. He is completely smitten by the handsome, athletic Christian (Charlie Keegan). Fascination turns to obsession as he starts to stalk the young man, unable to act on his fatal… View full details and ticket info
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
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Our second helping of Muppet goodness (following The Muppets on Sun 5 Feb) comes courtesy of this hugely winning documentary about the man behind that helium-voiced megastar Elmo. As an average teenager growing up in 1970s Baltimore, Kevin Clash had very different aspirations from his classmates he wanted to be a puppeteer. With a supportive family behind him, Kevin made those dreams come true, landing a spot on Sesame Street where he performed several characters until, one fateful day in… View full details and ticket info
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Bel Ami
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Robert Pattinson gives his best screen performance to date as notorious scoundrel Georges Duroy in this handsome adaptation of the classic Guy de Maupassant novel. In the Paris of the 1890s, Georges is a penniless, dissolute ex-soldier. Unexpectedly thrust into high society, he quickly discovers that the real power in Paris lies not with the men but with their wives and mistresses. Madeleine (Uma Thurman), Virginie (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Clotilde (Christina Ricci) are all ripe for the… View full details and ticket info
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Ben Rivers: The Scope Trilogy
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Three short films from rising star Ben Rivers, whose debut feature Two Years at Sea is also showing at this year's Festival. Ah Liberty! (2008) is a snapshot of a family living in a remote landscape children, animals, junk and nature collide in this fragmented look at freedom. In I Know Where I'm Going (2009) the director takes a road trip to the Isle of Mull, embracing serendipity and meeting eccentrics and hermits on the way. And lastly in Slow Action (2011) Rivers explores landscape… View full details and ticket info
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The Bengali Detective
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No writer of fiction could devise a character as beguiling as Rajesh Ji, a paunchy private detective who patrols the mean streets of Kolkata solving murders, prying into the messy lives of divorcing couples and thwarting endless dodgy scams. Rajesh is also a dedicated family man with a passion for dance and the abiding conviction that his smooth moves may yet bring him stardom. Philip Cox's documentary has a great central subject but also provides a fresh, offbeat perspective on modern India… View full details and ticket info
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Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City
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A beautifully haunting documentary celebrating the rhythm of life over a one-day period in 1927 Berlin. Studying a cross section of the populace that inhabit this lively city, the film conveys an appreciation of the joys and atmosphere of city life. View full details and ticket info
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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Despite an irresistible army of pension-age talent including Dench, Smith and Wilkinson, all on excellent form, this story about a group of unconnected British retirees who come to the titular hotel in Jaipur and find resolution for their various issues and challenges, feels too calculated to offer anything more than disposable entertainment at best, and cheaply manipulative emotional kicks at worst. View full details and ticket info
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Better this World
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In 2008, friends Brad Crowder and David McKay were so shocked by the American invasion of Iraq that they vowed to express their opposition at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota. Isn't the right to protest what distinguishes a democratic state? Posing as a protest leader, an FBI informant encouraged them to create pipe bombs and caused their arrest and subsequent prosecution as terrorists. The two men rejected the chance to plea bargain and withstood unbearable pressure to testify… View full details and ticket info
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Big Banana Feet
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Inspired by DA Pennebaker's classic Bob Dylan documentary Don't Look Now, director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat followed Billy Connolly on his 1975 Irish tour from the opening concert in Dublin to the final night in Belfast. Unlike Dylan, Billy Connolly welcomes the presence of the filmmakers and invites the viewer into his world. The result is a fascinating time capsule of the young Connolly at the height of his powers braving a tense political situation with a breezy: 'naw… View full details and ticket info
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Big Miracle
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Romantic drama 'inspired by the incredible true story' of a new reporter (John Krasinski) and his efforts to save a family of whales in Alaska. View full details
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Bill Cunningham New York
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Bill Cunningham is one of the great unsung heroes of the fashion world. Every week this reclusive photographer contributes two spreads to the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. 'On the Street' captures cutting-edge trends as they develop among the everyday New Yorkers he snaps. 'Evening Hours' showcases the latest haute couture statements from the rich and famous around town. His work over the past 30 years contains all the changing faces of fashion and the many sides of New York. View full details and ticket info
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Black Gold
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This action-adventure is set at the turn of the 20th century as oil is being discovered in the desert. Annaud falls short in directing the action and, ironically, can’t avoid stereotypes of the Arab World, especially in its depiction of female characters. View full details and ticket info
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Blackthorn
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Imagine that Butch Cassidy did not die in a hail of bullets in 1908. Mateo Gil's stunningly handsome western is set 20 years later with Cassidy living in South America under the name of James Blackthorn. Yearning to reconnect with America and the man who could be his son, Blackthorn hits the trail and soon encounters slippery stranger Eduardo who seems determined to fill the role vacated by the Sundance Kid and nudge him back into a life of crime. Can history repeat itself amid the social and… View full details and ticket info
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The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel)
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Berlin's decadent cabaret era is vibrantly brought to life as Dietrich's voluptuous singer Lola-Lola sets out to seduce and destroy a bourgeois schoolteacher. In her first major role, the actress taps into a potent current of female sexuality. View full details and ticket info
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