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Free Political Film Screenings Cinema Politica is a project organized by Montréal-based non-profit überculture, and comprises a network of several local film exhibition series across Canada, Europe and the USA.

Previously Screened Films

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Thu March 11 3:30pm

UBC (Vancouver)

Nicolas Rossier / USA / 2006 / 82 min / English, French and Creole w/ Eng s.t.
Detailed account of the United States' removal of Haiti's democratically elected president, Aristide.

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Thu March 11 3:30pm

UBC (Vancouver)

One hour away from Miami the elected President of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest...

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Tue March 9 8:00pm

McGill University (Montreal)

Rupert Murray / UK / 2009 / 90 min
The world’s first major documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing

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Tue March 9 8:00pm

McGill University (Montreal)

The End of the Line, the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of...

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Tue March 9 7:00pm

Peace River

German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia / Canada / 2009 / 82 min / English and Spanish w/ Eng s.t.)
A documentary about Coke and labour rights in the bottling plants.

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Tue March 9 7:00pm

Peace River

THE COCA COLA CASE is screening throughout the CP Network between winter and spring...

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Mon March 8 7:30pm

Grande Prairie

Sylvie Van Brabant / Canada / 2009 / 83 min
We’ve heard the problems, now here’s some environmental solutions

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Mon March 8 7:30pm

Grande Prairie

The film could have been called: An Operation Manual for Planet Earth, EcoRevolution,...

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Mon March 8 7:30pm

Concordia University (Montreal)

Fermin Muguruza / Spain-Palestine / 2009 / 73 min
Surviving and challenging occupation with music

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Mon March 8 7:30pm

Concordia University (Montreal)

A journey through one of the regions which is always in the glare of the world's...

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Mon March 8 7:00pm

Carleton University

Alan Kohl / Canada / 2008 / 72 min
What is public space? What are the boundaries to public space, especially in cities? Who is Roadsworth?

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Mon March 8 7:00pm

Carleton University

ROADSWORTH CROSSING THE LINE: Over a period of three years, the stencil artist Peter...

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Mon March 8 7:00pm

Stockholm

Vicky Funari & Julia Query / USA / 2000 / 75 min
A funny and moving doc about the first stripper's union in the US

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Mon March 8 7:00pm

Stockholm

A documentary about strippers unionizing This first person documentary follows...

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Mon March 8 7:00pm

Nipissing

Ian Connacher / Canada / 2008 / 85 min
The Rise and Demise of a Modern Miracle

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Mon March 8 7:00pm

Nipissing

ADDICTED TO PLASTIC encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on 5...

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Mon March 8 6:00pm

UQÀM (Montreal)

Yung Chang / Canada / 2007 / 93 min
The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river as China welcomes in the 21st century.

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Mon March 8 6:00pm

UQÀM (Montreal)

In China, it is simply known as “The River.” But the Yangtze—and all of the life...

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Sun March 7 8:30pm

Dublin

Vicky Funari and Sergio de la Torre / Mexico / 68 mins / Spanish EST
Carmen Durán works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana’s eight hundred assembly plants, one of six million women around the world who labour for subsistence wag

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Sun March 7 8:30pm

Dublin

Carmen Durán works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana’s eight hundred...

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Sun March 7 7:30pm

Sackville

Ian Connacher / Canada / 2008 / 85 min
The Rise and Demise of a Modern Miracle

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Sun March 7 7:30pm

Sackville

ADDICTED TO PLASTIC encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on 5...

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Sun March 7 6:45pm

Dublin

Ric Esther Bienstock / Canada / 2005 / 88 min / Russian, English
A gripping documentary exposé inside the global sex slave trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc.

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Sun March 7 6:45pm

Dublin

An estimated half million women are trafficked annually for the purpose of sexual...

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Sun March 7 5:30pm

Dublin

Beate Arnestad / Norway / 2006 / 60 min / Tamil with English subtitles
Two female soldiers fight for the independence of Tamil in this award-winning, powerful doc.

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Sun March 7 5:30pm

Dublin

What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? In this intimate and...

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Sun March 7 3:45pm

Dublin

Jill Irene Freidberg / Mexico / 2007 / 93 minutes / Spanish EST
In the summer of 2006 a broadly based and non-violent uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca; but it was the people’s use of the media that tru

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Sun March 7 1:15pm

Dublin

Therea Shechter / Canada-USA / 2005 / 62min
A funny, moving and very personal journey into the heart of 21st Century feminism

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Sun March 7 1:15pm

Dublin

When did feminism become a bad word? Why is it that young independent,...

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Fri March 5 7:30pm

Woods Hole (Massachusetts)

Philippe Baylaucq / Canada / Afghanistan / 2008/ 81 min
A father whose son died in the attacks on the World Trade Center decides to help the people of Afghanistan in the hope of ending the cycle of violence.

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Fri March 5 7:30pm

Woods Hole (Massachusetts)

In 2001, Haruhiro Shiratori lost his only son in the World Trade Center attacks. But...

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Fri March 5 7:00pm

Taymouth

Gregory Greene / USA / 2004 / 78 min
Oil depletion and the collapse of the American dream

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Fri March 5 7:00pm

Taymouth

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in...

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Fri March 5 7:00pm

Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton

Julie Bridgham / USA-Nepal / 2008 / 90 min
Six heroes in Nepal resist the King's oppression and fight for the future of their country.

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Fri March 5 7:00pm

Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton

Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal’s modern...

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Thu March 4 7:30pm

Danforth

German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia / Canada / 2009 / 82 min / English and Spanish w/ Eng s.t.)
A documentary about Coke and labour rights in the bottling plants.

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Thu March 4 7:30pm

Danforth

THE COCA COLA CASE is screening throughout the CP Network between winter and spring...

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Thu March 4 7:00pm

Trondheim

Beate Arnestad / Norway / 2006 / 60 min / Tamil with English subtitles
Two female soldiers fight for the independence of Tamil in this award-winning, powerful doc.

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Thu March 4 7:00pm

Trondheim

What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? In this intimate and...

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Wed March 3 7:00pm

Carleton University

Connie Field/ USA/ 2006-2009/ 89 min.
This story traces the complex and fascinating drama of the anti-apartheid movement in one of South Africa's most important allies, the United States.

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Wed March 3 7:00pm

Carleton University

“The...

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Wed March 3 7:00pm

Victoria

Shane King & Arne Johnson / USA / 2008 / 89 min
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls teaches 8-18 year-olds about music, gender and self-defense

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Wed March 3 7:00pm

Victoria

At Rock 'n' Roll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it's OK...

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Wed March 3 6:00pm

Edmonton

b.h. Yael / Canada / 2006 / 75 min / Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
A hope that the ‘sounds of peace’ may predominate.

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Wed March 3 6:00pm

Edmonton

With profound depth and grace these three, thematically related videos tell the tragic...

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Tue March 2 8:00pm

McGill University (Montreal)

David Redmon / USA / 2006 / 72 min
Follows the "bead trail" from the bead factory in China to Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras.

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Tue March 2 8:00pm

McGill University (Montreal)

Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the "bead trail" from the factory in China to...

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Mon March 1 8:00pm

Concordia University (Montreal)

Martin Bureau / Canada / 2008 / 58 min
A visual poem that weaves together the story of land and people

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Mon March 1 8:00pm

Concordia University (Montreal)

Thirty years after the closing of the Schefferville’s mining colony, and after...

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Mon March 1 7:30pm

Concordia University (Montreal)

Mort Ransen / Canada / 1969 / 37 minutes
The classic 1969 NFB doc that puts the audience in the middle of conflict between First Nations and police

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Mon March 1 7:30pm

Concordia University (Montreal)

The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of...

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Mon March 1 7:30pm

Sackville

Hélène Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval / Canada / 2006 / 53 min
Eco-refugees from the Maldives to Alberta are the subject of this moving documentary.

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Mon March 1 7:30pm

Sackville

Each year, millions of people the world over are driven to forced displacement. From...

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Mon March 1 7:00pm

Stockholm

Nicolas Rossier / USA / 2006 / 82 min / English, French and Creole w/ Eng s.t.
Detailed account of the United States' removal of Haiti's democratically elected president, Aristide.

featured film:

Mon March 1 7:00pm

Stockholm

One hour away from Miami the elected President of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest...

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Mon March 1 7:00pm

Truro (NS)

Robert Greenwald / US / 2009 / 69 min
A brutally honest and graphic look at war and Imperialism in Afghanistan

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Mon March 1 7:00pm

Truro (NS)

Rethink Afghanistan is a 2009 documentary about the ongoing war in Afghanistan. This...

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Fri February 26 7:30pm

Woods Hole (Massachusetts)

Costa Gavras/ France, Algeria/ 1969/ 127 minutes/ French w/ English subtitles
A fictionalized account of government hypocrisy and cover-up of a real-life political assassination

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Fri February 26 7:30pm

Woods Hole (Massachusetts)

This 1969 political thriller directed by Costa Gavras chronicles the overthrow of the...

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Fri February 26 7:00pm

Fraser Valley

Þorfinnur Guðnason & Andri Snær Magnason / Iceland / 2009 / 89min
One of the best environmental films ever made - about the fight over Iceland's resources.

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Fri February 26 7:00pm

Fraser Valley

This is one of the best environmental films ever made. An incredibly, moving,...

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Fri February 26 7:00pm

Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton

Derek May / Canada / 1991 / 53 mins
Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, a Polish refugee living in New York, has taken his art out of museums and projected it on walls.

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Fri February 26 7:00pm

Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton

Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, a Polish refugee with a Canadian passport, living in New...

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Thu February 25 7:00pm

Fundy

Taggart Siegel / USA / 2007 / 82 min
Discover the dangers of farming while wearing a pink boa in a small American town...

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Thu February 25 7:00pm

Fundy

“My ancestors have farmed this land generation after generation, and I just about...

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Thu February 25 7:00pm

Victoria

Patrick Forestrier/France/2007/52 min/French and English

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Thu February 25 7:00pm

Victoria

The West’s demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the...

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Thu February 25 5:30pm

Edmonton

Owen 'Alik Shahadah / UK / 2005 / 108 min
500 years later from the onset of slavery and subsequent colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom.

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Thu February 25 5:30pm

Edmonton

Until Lions tells their tale, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter-...

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Wed February 24 7:00pm

Antigonish

Nicolas Rossier / USA / 2006 / 82 min / English, French and Creole w/ Eng s.t.
Detailed account of the United States' removal of Haiti's democratically elected president, Aristide.

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Wed February 24 7:00pm

Antigonish

One hour away from Miami the elected President of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest...

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Wed February 24 7:00pm

Lethbridge, AB

Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack / Switzerland / 2006 / 85 min
A 90 minute documentary on the planet's dwindling oil resources.

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Wed February 24 7:00pm

Lethbridge, AB

OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers...

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Wed February 24 7:00pm

Fraser Valley

Marie-Monique Robin / Canada / 2008 / 109 min
Monsanto takes over the world, one farm at a time.

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Wed February 24 7:00pm

Fraser Valley

With 17,500 employees, a 2006 sales figure of $7.5 billion and operations in 46...

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Tue February 23 7:00pm

Peace River

Barry Greenwald / Canada / 2009 / 70 min
The story of the social experiment conducted by the Canadian government that played with three Inuit lives.

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Tue February 23 7:00pm

Peace River

SHORT SYNOPSIS ...

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Tue February 23 7:00pm

Lethbridge, AB

German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia / Canada / 2009 / 82 min / English and Spanish w/ Eng s.t.)
A documentary about Coke and labour rights in the bottling plants.

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Tue February 23 7:00pm

Lethbridge, AB

THE COCA COLA CASE is screening throughout the CP Network between winter and spring...

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Tue February 23 7:00pm

Winnipeg

Sam Feder & Julie Hollar / USA / 2006 / 72 min
A probing look at questions and resistance toward FTMs from the lesbian community.

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Tue February 23 7:00pm

Winnipeg

An important exploration of issues rarely touched upon by most films portraying...

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Mon February 22 7:30pm

Nadja Drost / Canada / 2005 / 66 min
Ecuadorian farmers fight against Canadian Oil company, EnCana, to protect their land, their livelyhoods and their future.

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Mon February 22 7:30pm

In the aggressive search for the 'black gold' that drives Western economies,...

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Mon February 22 7:00pm

Nipissing

German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia / Canada / 2009 / 82 min / English and Spanish w/ Eng s.t.)
A documentary about Coke and labour rights in the bottling plants.

featured film:

Mon February 22 7:00pm

Nipissing

THE COCA COLA CASE is screening throughout the CP Network between winter and spring...

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Mon February 22 7:00pm

Carleton University

Astra Taylor / Canada / 2008 / 88min
Pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets.

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Mon February 22 7:00pm

Carleton University

"The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates Examined Life pulls...

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Mon February 22 7:00pm

Stockholm

Shannon Walsh / Canada / 2009 / 72 min
If you see one documentary on the Alberta tar sands, make sure it's this one.

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Mon February 22 7:00pm

Stockholm

Ever wonder where American gets most of its oil? If you thought it was Saudi Arabia or...

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Mon February 22 6:00pm

UQÀM (Montreal)

Omar Majeed / Canada / 2009
The progression of the Muslim Punk scene, from fiction novel to full-blown real-life scene of bands and their fans.

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Mon February 22 6:00pm

UQÀM (Montreal)

When he was 17, Michael Knight left his mother’s home in Rochester to study Islam at...

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Fri February 19 8:00pm

Bishop's

Conrad Schmidt / Canada / 2007 / 87 min
The True Cost of the 2010 Games

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Fri February 19 8:00pm

Bishop's

The "Five Ring Circus" exposes a side to the Vancouver Olympics which has not been...

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Fri February 19 7:30pm

Woods Hole (Massachusetts)

Murray Siple / Canada / 2008 / 55 min
Homeless men in North Vancouver race shopping carts while collecting bottles.

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Fri February 19 7:30pm

Woods Hole (Massachusetts)

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows...

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Fri February 19 7:00pm

Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton

Paul Manly / Canada / 2009 / 90 min
What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens’ rights have in common?

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Fri February 19 7:00pm

Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton

What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on...

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