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Last night, glasses clinked in Cottbus to celebrate 25 years of Eastern European cinema in Lusatia, 25 years of intercultural dialogue and 25 years of taking pleasure in film. The opening of the 25th FilmFestival Cottbus in the large auditorium of the Staatstheater Cottbus was attended by the who's who of politics, business and media.

"It is not uncommon for Cottbus to be mentioned in the same breath as Venice or Karlovy Vary", is how the Governing Mayor of Cottbus, Holger Kelch, expressed his joy at the especially large number of nations featured in "his" city to mark the anniversary. The official start was made by a first in the history of the festival - a television film, POLIZEIRUF 110:

BEYOND THE BORDER by the broadcaster rbb. "Television is involved in almost all cinema films, usually as a co-production partner," stated Programme Director Bernd Buder to explain the decision. "A German-Polish co- production with a German-Polish team of investigators - that sets a strong example. Moreover, this instalment of Polizeiruf was shot in the vicinity:

in Frankfurt/Oder." The rbb presenter Petra Gute charmingly hosted the evening, announcing a number of highlights in the Jugendstil auditorium.

Musical accompaniment was provided by Cottbus's rock ' n' roll veteran Russ Marasus, with other musicians from Cottbus eventually joining the jam session on stage. Among the special guests at the opening was the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, HE Monique van Daalen, who was delighted that Cottbus would also showcase Dutch cinematography this year:

On the one hand, the "globalEAST" section will cast a view to joint productions of our north-western neighbour and Eastern Europe, on the other, the East-West co-production market connecting cottbus, taking place in the frame of the film festival, will also place a thematic focus on the Netherlands. During her speech the Ambassador stroke a more serious note when she addressed the current migrant crisis: "In the public perception the East of Europe has become a transit lounge for hundreds of thousands of people. Our gaze follows that of the media reporting on this transit: It gets caught where the passage becomes difficult - at the borders. 'Borders'

is a word that, in the EU context, had only been used with the attribute 'green' until very recently. Today we know that Europe needs to earn this adjective back."

In the three competitions and ten further programme sections, the audience is invited to around 200 films from more than 40 nations at various venues.

In addition to the six traditional ones, the Stadthalle Cottbus, Weltspiegel, Glad-House-Saal, Obenkino, Kammerbühne, and the large auditorium of the Staatstheater Cottbus, further venues will be open for the first time as a one-off: the visitors' centre of the Gutsökonomie Schloss and Park Branitz, the Cottbuser Stadthaus, the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk and the Raumflugplanetarium Cottbus.

The festival is substantially supported by the State of Brandenburg, the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the City of Cottbus as well as the MEDIA - Creative Europe programme of the European Union. The festival opening was supported by the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB) and media.connect Brandenburg.

Staged for the third time from October 15-18 in New York City the Chelsea Film Festival focused on Women in Film and Media and presented sixty six productions from twenty three countries of which the majority were directed, produced and written by women.  The non-profit international festival was organized with cooperation from the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology and exceeded last year’s success. In 2013 47 films from 24 countries were shown to 4000 people. This year there was a significant increase in the number of films and the audience grew to about 5000. More than 1000 productions were submitted and 19 feature length films and 47 shorts selected for the program.

Virtually all productions were world, U.S. or New York premieres. The festival was founded by its directors Ingrid and Sionia Jean-Baptiste with the goal of serving international emerging film makers and showcasing their first or second film. By offering  many issue themed shorts, documentaries and feature length productions  the festival  followed the mission it had has been since its inception “making the world a better place”, thus showcasing films with specific messages and facilitating their distribution.  

The festival offered five professional panels with industry experts. Themes ranged from film investments and funding independent productions, the redefinition of distribution through on-demand options, to the progression of a production from concept to distribution. Also finding also a most responsive audience Several Apple Store Events, free and open to the public, were offered covering Women in Hollywood, Social Issues in Filmmaking, and Making a Feature on a Micro Budget.

The festival has set up the Chelsea Film Institute which offers throughout the year free arts training to underprivileged youth in New York’s Chelsea area for which funds were raised during the red carpet opening and closing ceremonies.  Expanding its screening program, a partnership  with the local Bow Tie Cinemas  has been established for a monthly program the Kino and Vino series showing a film each second Monday. It will start on November 9th with the grand prize winning feature P.T.S.D. by Cedric Godin. An estimated $70,000 in prizes is awarded by the jury, an amount that might increase given the continued growth of the Chelsea Film Festival.

SOLITARY, Sasha Krane, United States, UK 2015;   The opening film SOLITARY demonstrates the devastating impact an early hidden child hood trauma in a single parent broken family has on Nora.  It turns her into an alcoholic incapable of maintaining relations, a condition worsening when she is forced to live with her disabled father. Images from her past are haunting her in the house she returned to and her condition deteriorates. Drunk driving she causes the death of her close friend who was about to get married and is sentenced to a prison term. In jail she is sexually abused by a guard and assaulted by a female cell mate which prompts a fight and a longer prison term. Her sister secures her release and she finally reveals the repressed memory which had such devastating consequences. As a child she had been raped by her father and could never articulate and share her pain. Yet at the end she levels with her aging father and forces him to admit his crime. In her role as Nora Katherine Lee McEwan who is also the film’s writer and producer delivers an impressive performance. The film certainly presents a powerful narrative and was well enacted and staged. Yet its message of the severe damage caused by family based sex abuse may have been more effective if told in a more subdued way.

VALLEY [Emek], Sophie Artus, Israel, France, 2014;    The closing night film Valley pursued a related theme. In her first feature film Sophie Artus a former teacher who turned filmmaker analyses with finesse the social transmission of violence in apparently dysfunctional families and the impact of the school environment. The films is set in a small town in Northern Israel  and features a trio of teenagers  David, Josh and Linoy who become close friends attending the same high school class.  David, a quiet boy has just moved to the town, loves music and literature and lives with his single withdrawn father, a former security professional not communicating with his son, apart from trying to teaching him how to use a gun. His mother has committed suicide. Josh comes across as an outgoing and aggressive bully and seems to be only attached to his puppy dog, not caring for anything else, though he slowly embraces David as a friend. In his single parent family there is no father and the mother is unable to take care of him and is involved in affairs. His older brother is an unemployed a petty criminal and prone to impulsive violence. He belittles and beats Josh who even has protect his little brother and mother from the violence.  Linoy is an attractive girl with aspiration of becoming an actress or model in the future though she is on her own. There is no support for her. She falls in love with David creating a conflict between the boys. When Josh’s small dog is killed by his brother tensions explode resulting in a fateful violent encounter between the three and Josh’s brother and his buddies. Valley provides an outstanding illustration of the rise of violence shown in its raw imagery and of its family and social context from which there is no escape. This uncompromising film has already received several awards.

DAWN, Romed Wyder, Israel, 2014;   Based on a story by Elie Wisel DAWN is a feature staged like a theatrical play. Set in 1947 four men and one woman from the underground movement and a British officer they are holding spent one night together. They want to trade him for one of their fighters who is supposed to be hanged by the British forces the following morning. Under curfew they are holed up together in an apartment they cannot leave waiting for instructions to either kill or release the officer.  During the hours that follow their characters are shown. We encounter the commander who is a hardened resistance fighter, then the multi-faceted female organizer, a believer who is enmeshed in his prayers and can only love God, and finally cynic who is an apparent patty criminal. The youngest fighter Elisha is the central character completing the group. Their personalities emerge in their interactions. For Elisha any killing posits a moral dilemma, yet he is charged to shoot the officer with whom he speaks and who has a son his age. Elisha is a Holocaust survivor who joined the Zionist underground recently and is played to perfection by Joel Basman who is the only non-professional actor in the film. Elisha is troubled by the apparent ease of his fellow fighters to kill the officer and not swayed by their arguments. As he suggests the killing will not bring to life the fighter who maybe executed by the British and only add to the violence. After the order is given to execute the officer he descends to the basement, appealing to his dead parents “Do not judge me, judge God”.  Elisha’s notion of violence begetting violence appears to be borne out by Israel’s development. Relevant footage is bracketing the film with documentary material about the violent birth of Israel and the current raging conflict with Palestinians. It includes a brief telling scene reenacting an experience Elisha had.  After he is liberated from the concentration camp he refuses to beat a tormentor.  DAWN is an impressive achievement forcing the audience to reflect.

BEAST OF CARDO, Virginia Sanchez Navarro, Dominican Republic, 2014;    The social cage of one’s aristocratic background is an imprisonment from which one cannot escape, specifically in a small Latin American town where everything is known and shared.  Moira the principle protagonist of the film returns to Cardo after living in New York but continues to be pursued in her home town by the image of a loose woman which was attached to her when she lived there. Though her family is wealthy and shares with another aristocratic firmly the domination of the town, Moira is not accepted. A rejection due to her coming from an interracial marriage or and refusal to get involved with men from her background.  High society is suffocating her and she grows close to an aspiring gay fashion designer certainly not socially welcome by her circles. Intermittently there are some surreal scenes yet what struck me most was the ethnographic depiction of the upscale groups, the imagery of a caste life existence. The film is a dramatic social commentary of apparent wasteful lifestyles, devoid of content but rich in conspicuous consumption, hypocrisy, gossip, rumor, prejudice and self-absorption.

Having attended the fest for the first time I was certainly struck by its international character and the quality of the program which is superior to what is offered by similar New York based fests. Its involvement in the Chelsea community is also impressive.

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LE MAGHREB DES FILMS, c’est une plongée dans le meilleur du cinéma maghrébin, principalement d’Algérie, du Maroc et de Tunisie, mais aussi de Libye ou de Mauritanie.

 
Beaucoup d’avant-premières et de films inédits cette année, représentant la force, la diversité, la jeunesse et le talent des cinématographies maghrébines d’aujourd’hui, en présence de leurs auteurs.
 
Plus de soixante films, longs métrages et courts métrages, fictions et documentaires seront présentés.
 
Comme l’an dernier, nos rencontres se délocalisent dans plusieurs lieux de projection parisiens du Louxor à l’Institut des Cultures d’Islam, du Saint-André des Arts à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, au Club de l’Etoile ainsi que dans une quarantaine de salles en périphérie et en province.

Hassen Ferhani nous fera découvrir en avant-première son documentaire Dans ma tête un Rond-Point (sortie en salles en février 2016) récompensé cette année au FID de Marseille.
 
Au cinéma le Louxor nous proposerons trois œuvres parmi les plus fortes de leur cinématographie respective, cette année. De Leyla Bouzid, A peine j’ouvre les yeux ; de Hicham Lasri The Sea is Behind et du documentariste Malek Bensmaïl Contre-pouvoirs ; trois films dont les sorties en salles sont annoncées pour les tout prochains mois.

Au Saint-André des Arts, un panorama de l’état du cinéma documentaire. Six longs métrages inédits, complétant ceux présentés  au Louxor, témoigneront de la qualité, de la diversité et de la vigueur du genre.

Des hommages seront rendus, des tables rondes conclueront chacun d’eux :
-       à deux figures fondatrices des cinémas tunisien et marocain, Tahar Cheriaa et Nourredine Saïl (en sa présence) qui ont œuvré, entre autre, pour l’émergence d’une véritable cinématographie dans leur pays respectif, mais qui sont aussi les fondateurs des ciné-clubs, de la cinéphilie, de la critique et de l’histoire du cinéma…
-       à Ahmed Bouanani, pionner du cinéma marocain dont l’influence reste grande encore aujourd’hui chez de nombreux cinéastes ; ainsi Daoud Aoulad Syad qui sera honoré à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, comme photographe et comme cinéaste,
-       à l’académicienne, écrivaine et cinéaste, Assia Djebar, récemment disparue, dans le cadre d’une collaboration avec L’Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm.
L’occasion exceptionnelle de découvrir de grands films du patrimoine maghrébin, rares, méconnus, dont nombre d'entre eux sont complètement inédits en France.  
Dans la mesure de leurs disponibilités, les réalisateurs soutiendront la présentation de leur film d’une rencontre avec ses spectateurs.
 
LE MAGHREB DES FILMS c’est aussi des projections à l’année, des rencontres et des débats, avec des journalistes, universitaires, artistes et réalisateurs, issus du Maghreb (ou pas).

Suivez toute l’actualité du Maghreb des Films sur notre page Facebook : Maghreb des films et retrouvez notre programmation, les lieux et horaires sur www.maghrebdesfilms.fr 

Téléchargez la grille complète du programme.
 

The 23rd  edition of the Camerimage Film Festival promises to be one of the biggest editions yet, with a lineup of hot new films and incredible star power.

The star studded guest list for this year’s Festival includes actor Giovanni Ribisi who will be a member of the Main Competition Jury; actor Paul Bettany who will show his feature debut as director - "Shelter" - in the Directors Debuts Competition;  director Michael Hoffman who is President of the Main Competition Jury; director Jerzy Skolimowski who will show his latest film, "11 Minutes", a Polish Oscar candidate, co-produced by Tumult Foundation; documentary filmmaker Joan Churchill who will serve on the jury; popular Polish actor Robert Więckiewicz;  Bryan Adams  and Sandro Miller who will show exhibitions of their photographs;  editor Michael Tronick who will serve on the jury; and director Majid Majidi who will introduce the European premiere of "Muhammad: The Messenger of God", and receive a Camerimage Special Award.

The Special Camerimage Award to Costume Designer with Unique Visual Sensitivity will be presented to Sandy Powell, one of the most distinguished costume designers working today.

Meanwhile, the festival will also honor Producer and Showrunner Frank Spotnitz  who has worked both in the States and in Europe, and was one of the creators of The X-Files and its feature sequels, and is a showrunner on The Man in the High Castle, currently considered one of the major events of this television season. Frank Spotnitz will be the first-ever recipient of Camerimage Award to Television Producer with Unique Visual Sensitivity.

For more details and information on the lineup and events please visit http://www.camerimage.pl/

About CAMERIMAGE

Now in its 23rd Edition, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE is the most recognized festival dedicated to the art of cinematography and is the biggest international film festival in Poland. The unconventional format of the Festival, which awards films according to their visual, aesthetic and technical values, is a unique alternative to traditional film festivals.

CAMERIMAGE proves to be a great forum not only for presentation but also for further development of international moviemaking and provides a platform for young filmmakers to explore new artistic areas.

In addition to the Main Competition, the Festival offers a 3D Films Competition, Polish Films Competition, Student Etudes Competition, Documentary Films Competition, Feature Debuts Competition, Music Videos Competition, Camerimage Market, Camerimage Forum, special screenings and premieres, various reviews, retrospectives, meetings and also accompanying events such as art exhibitions and music performances.

Various presentations of modern film equipment and of the latest production and postproduction technologies (both traditional and digital) are also an inherent aspect of the Festival and have been organized with cooperation from companies such as Arri, Panavision, Kodak, Hawk, K5600, J.L. Fisher, Sony, Panasonic, KinoFlo, Technicolor, Canon, Zeiss and Red.

CAMERIMAGE is an extraordinary event where art and technology meet, creating a unique and unforgettable atmosphere. Please visit http://www.camerimage.pl/ for more information.

COMING UP TOMORROW, DAY 3 (NOV 6):

9:15 AM- 10:45 AM    AFM CONFERENCE SERIES

Location: Fairmont Hotel- Starlight Ballroom- 101 Wilshire Blvd                                    

Finance Conference

                                    First Session: Current Issues in Film Finance

Moderator: P John Burke / Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

Panelists: Jeffrey Chan, Board Member and COO, Bona Film Group; David Linde, CEO, Participant Media; Bennett C. Pozil, EVP Head of Corporate Banking, East West Bank; Roy A. Salter, Senior Advisor, FTI Consulting Inc

11:15AM- 12:45 PM    Second Session: The Film Finance Matrix: From Script to Screen

                                    Moderator: Joseph Chianese/ EVP, Entertainment Partners

Panelists: Micah Green / Co-Head Film Finance, CAA; Biran O’Shea / CEO, The Exchange; Chris Spicer / Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP; Paul Steinke / SVP Production Finance, Walt Disney Studios; Adrian Ward / SVP Entertainment Industries Division, Pacific Mercantile Bank; Gareth Unwin / Co-Founder & CEO, Bedlam Productions

2:30PM- 4:00PM         AFM CONFERENCE SERIES

Location: Fairmont Hotel- Starlight Ballroom- 101 Wilshire Blvd.                                   

China Conference

                                    First Session: Producing In China

                                    Moderator: Peter Shiao / Dounder & CEO, Orb Media Group

Panelists: Chris Bremble, Founder & CEO, Base Media Group; Dr. Shi Jianxiang, Chairman, Shanghai Kuailu Investment Group; Rick Nathanson, Line Producer, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend”, “Bunraku”, “Red Cliff”, “Dragon – The Life of Bruce Lee”; Miao Xiaotian, President, China Film Co-production Corporation; April Ye, CEO, Film Finances China

4:30PM- 6:00PM         Second Session: Marketing & Distributing in China

                                    Moderator: Patrick Frater / Asia Bureau Chief, Variety

Panelists: Jiang Haiyang, Film Director; David Jourdan, SVP, Int’l Business Development & Operations, IM Global; William Pfeiffer, CEO, Dragongate Entertainment; Yang Xianghua, SVP, iQIYI.COM

The 29^th annual Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles is one of many sponsors at this year’s American Film Market.  The two organizations are not partners and have not joined forces, affiliations or alliances.  The Festival is simply a paid sponsor of the AFM in order to promote Israeli films to buyers and attendees of the Market, including screenings at local Los Angeles theatres and operating a Market booth, which is sponsored in part by the Jerusalem Film Fund to promote film production in Jerusalem.  The Festival apologizes for any direct or implied inference of a further association between the AFM and the IFF, which was not intended.

The Israel Film Festival is presented by the IsraFest Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization created in 1982.

LAMVF continues tonight, Nov 7th, at 8:30PM!  Doors open at 8PM at Cinefamily, tickets will be available at the door for $12.  We'll begin with the "Art & Commerce" panel with commissioners & producers before screening the Narrative & Non-Narrative finalists.  Then stick around for our very special Artist Keynote with KIMBRA with her long time collaborators, Guy Franklin & Adam Sager.  

We'll close the evening with the 2015 Awards Presentation of our signature "EMVY" trophies and prizes.  Stick for a reception on the patio with more drinks from Angel City Brewery, Tito's Vodka, & Bai.  Remember to Like& Follow us for any last minute updates.  

Check out the full schedule here and get your tickets NOW 
 

SATURDAY, NOV. 7 (Part 1) / 8:30pm (doors @ 8PM)

INDUSTRY PANEL: "Art & Commerce" Q&A ft. commissioners and producers. Come with your tough questions, these guys are ready for real talk. 

SCREENING: Narrative & Non-Narrative Music Video Competition

SATURDAY, NOV. 7 (Part 2) / 10:30pm

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: KIMBRA

The Grammy winner joins us to look back at her indelible music video portfolio; and she's bringing along key collaborators Adam Sager and Guy Franklin (all the way from Australia!) for a very special Keynote conversation and screening.

AWARDS PRESENTATION
Including special awards presentation from Gloria FX for "Best VFX" & MVPA for "Best New Director"

Questions? Email us at info@lamvf.com.    

www.lamvf.com

By Maria Esteves – November 8, 2015

Jackson Heights, Queens, the multicultural capital of the world is truly the heart of New York City depicted by director Frederick Wiseman in his latest documentaryIN JACKSON HEIGHTS. Set in present day and filmed Vérité, this compelling over 3 hour documentary explores the authentic multicultural and religious communities where people from all over the world come to visit and live because of its unique neighborhoods, businesses and beautifications. It captures New York City life from school zoning to slow zone to engineering security with City Council Member Daniel Dromm to policing to business improvement development (BID) to the elderly community to the Julio Rivera murder to the 17th century Leverich Family Burial Ground and the 2013 Gay Parade.

IN JACKSON HEIGHTS, directed by Frederick Wiseman | Zipporah Films | USA | 2015 | 190 min | Documentary | Arabic, English, Hindi and Spanish with subtitles | Official Selection, 53rd New York Film Festival (NYFF53) | Reviewed at NYFF53, now playing at Film Forum, New York, through November 17, 2015.

AFI FEST invites attendees to sample this emerging technology. Guests can experience and interact with these immersive and virtual reality films on display at The Hollywood Roosevelt.

• VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) FILMS:

  EVOLUTION OF VERSE – From Vrse.works comes a photorealistic, CG-rendered 3D Virtual Reality film takes the viewer on a journey from one beginning to another. DIR Chris Milk. USA. Nov. 7-8 from 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

  THE MISSION – With immersive 360-degree shots, THE MISSION follows the adventure of a WWII Special Operations team that is dropped into a raging battle on the Eastern Front. From New Deal Studios and Jaunt VR. DIR Matthew Gratzner. USA. Nov. 7-8 from 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

  WALKING NEW YORK – Vrse.works and The New York Times come together to capture the birth of a new, large-scale street art installation in New York from renowned French artist JR. DIRS Chris Milk and Zack Richter. USA. Nov. 7-8 from 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

  WORLD TOUR – A journey through the vast experiences of our world from Google Jump. DIR Jessica Brillhart. USA. Nov. 7-8 from 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

  IMMERSIVE PROJECTS
  
  HELP – The first live action project from Google Spotlight Stories, HELP uses immersive 360-degree technology to drop the viewer into downtown Los Angeles during an alien attack. DIR Justin Lin. USA

  THE FORBIDDEN ROOM – A LIVING POSTER – Initially designed to promote Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin's new film, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, this looping collection of moving, morphing posters suggests an anachronistic collision between digitally corrupted video files and a damaged silent-era film print. DIR Galen Johnson. Canada. This project can be found at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres from Nov. 7-12.
  
  POSSIBILIA – In this astonishing interactive narrative film by acclaimed directing duo, The Daniels, and produced by Interlude and PRETTYBIRD, the tumultuous lives of two quarreling lovers unravel and participants choose how any given scene will play out from 16 parallel universes. DIRS The Daniels. USA. This will be on display at The Hollywood Roosevelt from Nov. 7-12.

9 November 2015

For Immediate release

OTTAWA, ON – The credits have rolled and the ballots are in! The audiences of the second annual Cellar Door Film Festival name Liza, the Fox-Fairy (Liza, a rókatündér) and The Prime of Life (La force de l‘âge) as the winners of the Audience Award for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film, respectively. Liza, the Fox-Fairy, directed by Károly Ujj Mészáros, is a dark fantasy/comedy from Hungary, while The Prime of Life is a chilling French thriller from director Quentin Lecocq. Both films represent the range of speculative films at CDFF from around the world.

Liza, the Fox-Fairy was the Opening Night feature presentation at CDFF this year and screened to an enthusiastic audience at Ottawa’s historic Mayfair Theatre. Laughs rippled throughout the theatre during the screening as Liza enchanted the crowd with her foxy tale. The Prime of Life enjoyed its North American premiere at Live! on Elgin where the film shook audiences with its expertly subtle dystopian tale and concise storytelling. CDFF congratulates Liza, the Fox-Fairy and The Prime of Life for being the audience favourites in the festival’s second year.

All screenings at CDFF were generously supported by Major Sponsors The School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University and Used Ottawa, as well as Supporting Sponsors the Alumni Association of Carleton University and The Haunted Walk of Ottawa, and Friend of the Festival Sponsors Stella Luna Gelato Café, The Odds and Sods Shoppe, Escape Manor, Bridgehead, Film Freeway, Can Con, and Ottawa Geek Market.

AboutCellar Door FilmFestival

Cellar Door Film Festival (CDFF) provides Ottawa with a showcase of speculative cinema: horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and everything else in between! From celebrating the creativity of the local film scene, to spotlighting the City as a setting for the sinister and supernatural, CDFF is committed to film culture, education, and production on local, national, and international levels.

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