Programme 2010

Programme 2010

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Grand Prize "Le Regard d'or"
The Other Bank
The Other Bank
George Ovashvili
Georgia
Talent Tape Award sponsored by Egli Film AG and Kodak SA
Tehroun
Nader T. Homayoun
Iran
SSA/Suissimage Best Script Award
Norteado
Northless
Rigoberto Perezcano
Mexico / Spain
FIPRESCI Award
Border (Sahman)
Border
Harutyun Khachatryan
Armenie
Ecumenical Award
Lola
Brillante Mendoza
The Philippines
E-Changer Award
El Vuelco del Cangrejo
Oscar Ruíz Navia
France / Colombia
IFFS Jury, Don Quijote Award
Lola
Brillante Mendoza
The Philippines
Public Award
The Other Bank
The Other Bank
George Ovashvili
Georgia


Film category
Click on a category in the list to reach the selection
1: Full-length feature films in competition2: Opening film3: Short films4: Je me balade dans Moscou5: Buccaneer Souls6: Moi, un Noir7: The Curse of the Korean Kings8: Reykjavik, Sofia9: Yakuza Graveyard10: Special screenings11: Carte blanche au Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival12: Carte blanche à Rui Nogueira13: Forum: TV Series14: Planète Cinéma15: Closing film

Full-length feature films in competition

Adrift
Adrift (Choi voi)
Duyen’s marriage to Hai, a taxi driver, ends in emptiness and solitude. Cam, a writer, conceals...
Bui Thac Chuyen
Year: 2009
Running time: 110min
Vietnam
Agua fría de mar
Cold Water of the Sea
While a young bourgeois couple, Mariana and Rodrigo, visit the Pacific coast of Costa Rica for...
Paz Fábrega
Year: 2009
Running time: 83min
Netherlands / Mexico / France / Spain / Costa Rica
 
Border (Sahman)
Border
A man in combat uniform and a farmer drive through a war-ravaged border zone transporting a buffalo...
Harutyun Khachatryan
Year: 2009
Running time: 82min
Armenie
El Vuelco del Cangrejo
After a long journey Daniel arrives on foot in a village located on the Pacific coast in western...
Oscar Ruíz Navia
Year: 2009
Running time: 95min
France / Colombia
La Sangre y la Lluvia
Blood and Rain
Jorge is a young taxi driver who, distraught by his brother's assassination by corrupt cops, seeks...
Jorge Navas
Year: 2009
Running time: 90min
Colombia
 
Lola
In Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, Lola means grandmother. We are shown two grandmothers, one...
Brillante Mendoza
Year: 2009
Running time: 110min
The Philippines
 
Norteado
Northless
From 16 years
Andres comes from Oaxaca, and just like many others, he dreams of crossing...
Rigoberto Perezcano
Year: 2009
Running time: 93min
Mexico / Spain
Perpetuum Mobile
Gabino lives with his mother, who worships his older brother. Their lives together are not easy...
Nicolás Pereda
Fariz Ahmedov
Year: 2009
Running time: 86min
Mexico / France / Canada
Rompecabezas
Puzzle
Maria del Carmen, a dedicated mother and housewife, leads a peaceful life. When she is given a...
Natalia Smirnoff
Year: 2009
Running time: 86min
Argentina
Tehroun
Ebrahim has his young wife back in the village believe that he has a business job in Tehran, whereas he...
Nader T. Homayoun
Year: 2009
Running time: 95min
Iran
 
The Other Bank
The Other Bank
Tedo, a 12 year-old boy, is an Abkhazian refugee living on the outskirts of Tbilisi, where he...
George Ovashvili
Year: 2009
Running time: 90min
Georgia
Wahed-Sefr
One-Zero
We follow eight people of both sexes and from a mixed social background during the Africa Cup...
Kamla Abu Zekry
Year: 2009
Running time: 114min
Egypt
 
Zindeeq
A day and a night in the life of a Palestinian filmmaker with a European passport who comes back...
Khleifi Michel
Year: 2009
Running time: 85min
England / Émirats arabes unis / Belgium / Palestine
 
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Opening film

Los Viajes del Viento
The Wind Journeys
Ignacio is an itinerant accordionist and widower. He decides to go off in search of his music...
Ciro Guerra
Year: 2009
Running time: 117min
Netherlands / Colombia / Argentina / Germany
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Short films

Asma
In an old apartment building, we see the reflection of a closed-in society through the ordinary...
Patricio Hinojosa, Ivete Guerra, Daniela Pérez, Raúl Quintanilla, Carlos R. Sánchez, Diego Suárez, Mark Ch. Wolf
Year: 2009
Running time: 10min
Mexico
 
Be at Table with me
A lonely old man lives in a decrepit apartment in Seoul. On the first anniversary of his wife’s...
Cheong Se-jin
Year: 2008
Running time: 23min
South Korea
 
Ciao Mama
A single mother leaves her daughter to go on a trip with her new lover. The daughter overcomes...
Goran Odvorčić
Year: 2009
Running time: 10min
Croatia
 
Como pez en el agua
Like fish in water
The story of an old man and a teenager who fall in love with the same woman. A short film about solitude...
Jimena Montemayor
Year: 2009
Running time: 27min
Mexico
 
dear (imaginary?) friend
Short films - Programme 2
...
Year: 2010
Running time: 95min
 
Dor
Dor, a handsome soldier, returns home for the weekend after murdering a young Palestinian. While spending...
Ofir Raul Graizer
Year: 2009
Running time: 27min
Israel
 
Everyday Everyday
Sook Chen has quit her job: she has decided to go to Peru. Ma doesn’t understand, but to tell...
Tan Chui Mui
Year: 2009
Running time: 18min
Malaysia
 
Evya
Evya is a depressed young man who decides to end his life after his sister is killed in a car...
Oran Feldman
Year: 2009
Running time: 28min
Israel
 
Meltdown
Meltdown
12 year-old Vika dreams of becoming part of the Russian national ice-skating team. She is rejected on...
Kathy Rivkin
Year: 2008
Running time: 25min
Israel
 
One Step
One Step
Yusif, a war veteran from Karabach, is tired of living as a blind man and decides to commit suicide. However,...
Nargiz Baghirzade
Fariz Ahmedov
Year: 2009
Running time: 23min
Azerbaïdjan
 
Pick up the phone
Short films - Programme 1
...
Year: 2010
Running time: 107min
 
Ring Ring
In a Bolivian neighborhood, all Saturdays a phone rings. A bunch of kids run to answer it, but...
Fred Nuñez
Monica Heinrich
Year: 2009
Running time: 15min
Bolivia
 
Sapir College
Short films - Programme 3
...
Year: 2010
Running time: 110min
 
The Red Queens
Bul-Geun Yeo-Wang-Deul
A day in the life of two women who both once had an abortion....
Hyun Jeong-jae
Year: 2009
Running time: 28min
South Korea
 
Tripoli, Quiet
Tripoli, Quiet
A few hours into his shift, a cab driver from Tripoli, Lebanon, finds a boy sitting on the backseat...
Rania Attieh
Daniel Garcia
Year: 2009
Running time: 14min
Lebanon
 
Tzel Over
Passing Shadow
A terrible secret has shaken Gili’s world. She decides to take revenge, but the moment her decision...
Shimon Shai
Year: 2009
Running time: 25min
Israel
 
Xiao Fu
Xiao Fu writes postcards to her pen pal while hanging out wither her little brother....
Sookoon Ang
Year: 2009
Running time: 7min
Singapore
 
Your Younger Daughter Rachel
Berachel Bitcha Haktana
16 year-old Rachel is living through a difficult adolescence, both at home and outside of it;...
Efrat Corem
Year: 2006
Running time: 30min
Israel
 
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Je me balade dans Moscou

Anna Politkovskaïa, sept ans sur la ligne de front
As a journalist at «Novaia Gazeta», the only nationwide opposition paper, Politkovskaya denounced the...
Masha Novikova
Year: 2008
Running time: 78min
Netherlands
 
Brat
Brother
Daniil has just come back from his military service with neither money nor a job, and no one in...
Alekseï Balabanov
Year: 1997
Running time: 96min
Russia
Brèves rencontres
Brief Encounters (Korotkie vstrechi)
An employee of the city of Odessa is waiting for her husband to come back from a business trip....
Kira Muratova
Year: 1967
Running time: 96min
Russia
 
Champ sauvage
Wild Field (Dikoye Pole)
Mitia, a very young doctor, is given work in an abandoned clinic in the middle of the Kazakh steppes....
Mikhaïl Kalatozishvili
Year: 2008
Running time: 108min
Russia
 
Daleko ot Sunset Bulvara
Far from Sunset Boulevard
At the beginning of the 1930’s, Dalmatov, a young filmmaker, comes back to the USSR after spending...
Igor Minaiev
Year: 2005
Running time: 130min
France / Russia
Dans ce pays là
In That Country (V toy strane…)
Far away in the Russian countryside where it is unlikely that anyone ever heard of Perestroika,...
Lydia Bobrova
Year: 1997
Running time: 85min
Russia
 
Happy Birthday!
S dnyom rozhdeniya
During the last days of a maternity ward out in the provinces, several women, all staying in the...
Larisa Sadilova
Year: 1998
Running time: 69min
Russia
Je me balade dans Moscou
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Ya shagayu po Moskve)
A day in the life of a young Moscovite, Kolia, who works at night and comes home early in the...
Gueorgui Danielia
Year: 1964
Running time: 78min
Russia
Koktebel
Roads to Koktebel
From 13 years
An 11-year old boy and his father, who have neither money nor a home, leaveMoscow...
Boris Khlebnikov
Aleksei Popogrebsky
Year: 2003
Running time: 105min
Russia
L'Italien
The Italian (Italyanets)
Vania, 6 years old lives in the orphanage. His pals envy him because an Italian couple wants to adopt...
Andreï Kravtchouk
Year: 2007
Running time: 99min
Russia
 
Le temps de la moisson
Harvest Time
During the 1950’s, a young kolkhoz worker wins the Red Flag prize given to the person whose achievement...
Marina Razbezhkina
Year: 2004
Running time: 67min
Russia
Les Premiers sur la Lune
First on the Moon (Pervye na lune)
No one knew about this until the present film was made: the Soviet Union were the first to send...
Aleksei Fedortchenko
Year: 2005
Running time: 75min
Russia
 
Mon demi-frère Frankenstein
My Half-Brother Frankenstein (Moy svobonyy brat Frankenstein)
Until he arrives at the home of a conventional intellectual family in Moscow, no one ever knew...
Valery Todorovsky
Year: 2004
Running time: 120min
Russia
 
Palata N°6
Ward No. 6
An investigation is being made in a psychiatric clinic near Moscow. It becomes clear that the...
Karen Shakhnazarov
Year: 2009
Running time: 83min
Russia
Pas de gué dans le feu
V ogne broda net
War is raging after the October Revolution. In a hospital train, Tania is an assistant nurse,...
Gleb Panfilov
Year: 1967
Running time: 95min
Russia
 
Russian Ark
Russkij kovcheg
The film takes place entirely in the Hermitage Palace, the home of all the czars since Peter the Great....
Alexander Sokourov
Year: 2002
Running time: 99min
Russia
Staroukhi
The little old ladies
Old women living in a deserted Russian village bury one of the inhabitants, wondering whether there...
Guennadi Sidorov
Year: 2003
Running time: 100min
Russia
Tishe!
Daily life along 20meters of road in Saint Petersburg....
Victor Kossakovski
Year: 2002
Running time: 80min
Russia
 
Vingt jours sans guerre
Twenty Days without War (Dvadtsat dney bez voyny)
Vassiliy Lopatin, war correspondent and well-known writer, is given 20 days’ leave at the end...
Alekseï Guerman
Year: 1976
Running time: 101min
Russia
 
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Buccaneer Souls

Alma Corsária
Rivaldo Torres and Teodoro Xavier, two childhood friends, celebrate the publication of their anthology...
Carlos Reichenbach
Year: 1993
Running time: 111min
Brazil
Anjos do arrabalde
The daily life of three women, all of them teachers in the poorer suburbs of Sao Paulo. All three...
Carlos Reichenbach
Year: 1986
Running time: 104min
Brazil
 
Dois Córregos, Verdades Submersas no Tempo
At the end of the 1990’s, a successful young woman returns to the small village of Dois Corregos...
Carlos Reichenbach
Year: 1999
Running time: 112min
Brazil
Garotas do ABC
In Brazil, ABC is the name of the industrial heart of the country on the southern border of Sao Paulo....
Carlos Reichenbach
Year: 2003
Running time: 125min
Brazil
Houve uma vez dois verões
From 14 years
Chico, a young boy, is on vacation at the seaside and falls in love with the...
Furtado Jorge
Year: 2003
Running time: 76min
Brazil
Ilha das Flores
How a tomato lands in a garbage can. Or the life and the death of a fruit grown by a South Brazilian peasant...
Furtado Jorge
Year: 1989
Running time: 14min
Brazil
Meu Tio Matou um Cara
Eder is thrown into jail after having killed a man. Duca, his fifteen-year old nephew, tries to...
Furtado Jorge
Year: 2004
Running time: 87min
Brazil
O homem que copiava
André, 20 years old, «photocopy machine operator», has a crush on Silvia. The story is about...
Furtado Jorge
Year: 2003
Running time: 123min
Brazil
O Sanduíche
Sandwich
A couple is eating its last sandwich while a new couple may already be getting together. And a...
Furtado Jorge
Year: 2000
Running time: 13min
Brazil
Saneamento básico, o filme
The inhabitants of the small town of Linha Cristal demand that sanitation work be done in their town,...
Furtado Jorge
Year: 2007
Running time: 112min
Brazil
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Moi, un Noir

Chronique d'un été
During the summer of 1960, sociologist Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch investigate the daily life of...
Jean Rouch
Edgar Morin
Year: 1961
Running time: 85min
France
Cocorico Monsieur Poulet
From 13 years
Lam decides to leave for the bush in an old 2CV truck to sell chickens with...
Jean Rouch
Year: 1974
Running time: 93min
France / Niger
Jaguar
J.Rouch’s first full-length film, worked over several times before its official release in 1967....
Jean Rouch
Year: 1967
Running time: 91min
France
La chasse au lion à l'arc
From 1957 to 1964, Rouch observes the Gao hunters. The film recounts the episodes of the hunt in...
Jean Rouch
Year: 1965
Running time: 88min
France
 
Les Maîtres fous
The film shows the rituals of the Hauka cult, a religious sect, at their big annual ceremony....
Jean Rouch
Year: 1955
Running time: 36min
France
Madame l'eau
Under the Skin
Lam, Damouré and Tallou go an adventurous trip to Holland, for they are searching for solutions...
Jean Rouch
Year: 1993
Running time: 120min
France
 
Moi, un Noir
Some young men from Niger have left the landlocked country to look for work in the Ivory Coast. Uprooted...
Jean Rouch
Year: 1958
Running time: 70min
France
Mon père c'est un lion, Jean Rouch pour mémoire
The «Musée de l’Homme» in Paris, the royal seat of French cultural anthropologists, is going...
Lionel Baier
Dominique de Rivaz
Year: 2002
Running time: 8min
Switzerland
 
Paris vu par…
Episode Gare du Nord (Jean Rouch)
Set in Paris in the sixties in the vicinity of the Gare du Nord, Jean Rouch films the turmoil...
Jean Rouch
Year: 1965
Running time: 92min
France
Petit à petit
Damouré and two friends head an import-export company called «Petit à Petit». He wants to...
Jean Rouch
Year: 1971
Running time: 96min
France
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The Curse of the Korean Kings

A Frozen Flower
Ssang-hwa-jeom
At the end of the Koryo era (918-1932), the king can no longer tolerate China’s domination over...
Yu Ha
Year: 2008
Running time: 133min
South Korea
Diary of King Yonsan
Yeonsan ilgi
The young ruler Yonsan accedes to the throne in 1495. His fragile mental state makes it impossible...
Im Kwon-taek
Year: 1987
Running time: 114min
South Korea
 
King and the Clown
Wang-ui namja
In the 1490’s, the time of the dark prince Yonsan, travelling tight-rope walkers and buffoons...
Lee Jun-ik
Year: 2005
Running time: 119min
South Korea
Shadows in the Palace
Goongnyeo
Suicide in the palace – a servant woman has hung herself. The nurse in charge of the autopsy...
Kim Mee-jeung
Year: 2007
Running time: 112min
South Korea
The Eunuch
Naeshi
Do-ryung and Ja-ok have loved each other since childhood, but Ja-ok’s father introduces her...
Shin Sang-ok
Year: 1968
Running time: 105min
South Korea
 
The President's Last Bang
Geuddae geusaramdeul
Seoul, 1979. At the dawning of the «Made in Korea» era, the dictator Park Chung-hee seems to be...
Im Sang-soo
Year: 2005
Running time: 102min
South Korea
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Reykjavik, Sofia

Eastern Plays
While on holiday in Sofia, a family of Turks is assaulted one night by a neo-Nazi group. Itso,...
Kamen Kalev
Year: 2009
Running time: 89min
Bulgaria / Sweden
Police, Adjective
Politist, adj.
Cristi works as a policeman in the small town of Vasliu in north-eastern Romania. For many days,...
Corneliu Porumboiu
Year: 2009
Running time: 115min
Romania
Reykjavík Rotterdam
Kristófer is a security agent. This is a lucky break for a man who had once been sentenced for...
Óskar Jónasson
Year: 2008
Running time: 90min
Island
Slovenka
Slovenian Girl
Alexandra, a young student, supports herself in Ljubljana by what is called the oldest profession...
Damjan Kozole
Year: 2009
Running time: 90min
Serbia / Croatia / Germany / Slovenia
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Yakuza Graveyard

Battle Royale
Batoru rowaiaru
In order to combat unemployment and violence among young people, the Japanese government proclaims the...
Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 2000
Running time: 114min
Guerre des gangs à Okinawa
Sympathy for the Underdog (Bakuto gaijin butai)
A gang of young delinquents start blackmailing middle-class and other upwardly mobile beneficiaries of...
Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 1971
Running time: 93min
Japan
La maison de geishas
The Geisha House (Omocha)
This is the description of the life of a geisha, or how poverty has forced Tokiko to prostitute...
Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 1999
Running time: 113min
Japan
 
Le salaire du crime
Wolves, Pigs & Men (Ôkami to buta to ningen)
Ichiro, Jiro and Sabu are three no-good brothers who dream of only one thing: to get rich and...
Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 1964
Running time: 95min
Japan
 
Okita le pourfendeur
Street Mobster
The story of Okita, a violent delinquent who gradually isolates himself from everyone in an almost...
Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 1972
Running time: 92min
Japan
 
Shogun Samourai
Intrigue of the Yagyu Clan (Yagyû ichizoku no inbô)
After the death of the Shogun Tokugawa, it turns out that he was poisoned by his son Iemitsu’s friends,...
Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 1978
Running time: 130min
Japan
Yakuza Graveyard
Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana
An undercover policeman tries to catch the bad guys who are active in his sector. The closer he...
Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 1976
Running time: 97min
Japan
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Special screenings

Alicia Bustamante, un film de Hanna Schygulla
In her first film, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's regular lead actress (Lili Marleen,...
Hanna Schygulla
Year: 2009
Running time: 90min
Cuba / France
 
Crime and Punishment
Young police recruits take up their quarters at the Chinese-North Korean border. Confronted with local...
Zhao Liang
Year: 2007
Running time: 123min
France / China
 
Extérieur Nuit
From one day to another, Léo (Gérard Lanvin) ditches his job as a publicist and his girlfriend,...
Jacques Bral
Year: 1980
Running time: 112min
France
 
Paper Airplane
This film shows a group of young drug addicts in the Beijing suburbs. They get arrested and make never-kept...
Zhao Liang
Year: 2001
Running time: 77min
China
 
Petition
This film (shot between1998 and 2006) is about Chinese citizens who come to Beijing from all over the...
Zhao Liang
Year: 2009
Running time: 124min
China
 
We Are Half of Iran’s Population
We Are Half of Iran’s Population
From 14 years
There are a large number of feminist activists in Iran. They come from a very...
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Year: 2009
Running time: 47min
Iran
 
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Carte blanche au Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival

O Ritual dos Sádicos
Awakening of the Beast
During a TV show, a moralistic audience condemns José Mojica Marins, an anticlerical artist and provocateur....
José Mojica Marins
Year: 1970
Running time: 93min
Brazil
Pulgasari
Pulgasari
A warlord is forcing farmers to give him their tools so he can recover the metal and turn it into weapons....
Shin Sang-ok
Chong Gon Jo
Year: 1985
Running time: 95min
South Korea
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Carte blanche à Rui Nogueira

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1850. In Oregon, deep in the American West, Adam and Milly are getting married without any prelude. Only...
Stanley Donen
Year: 1954
Running time: 99min
United States
 
Westward the Women
Westward the Women
19th century, American wild. There aren\'t enough women. Roy Whitman wants to give the workers...
William A. Wellman
Year: 1951
Running time: 114min
United States
 
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Forum: TV Series

Al-Intizar
Waiting
Over one third of the total urban population in the Arab world – 57 million people - live in...
Allith Hajjo
Year: 2007
Running time: 40min
Syria
 
Almost
They may never become stars, but that doesn’t dampen the lively imagination of four Arab boys whose...
Todd Nims, Ali Kalthami
Year: 2010
Running time: 26min
Saudi Arabia
Avoda Aravit
Arab Labor
Amjad is an Arab journalist in Israel. In order to mingle with the cool Israeli crowd, Amjad is...
Roni Ninio
Year: 2008
Running time: 30min
Israel
BeTipul
In Treatment
A half-hour drama, BeTipul focuses on a therapist who is calm, smooth, insightful, and non confrontational with...
Nir Bergman, Hagai Levi, Ori Sivan, UziWeill
Year: 2005
Running time: 30min
Israel
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Planète Cinéma

Eli & Ben
From 8 years
Eli’s world is turned upside down when his father, an architect of the city...
Ori Ravid
Year: 2008
Running time: 89min
Israel
Jiburo – Sur le chemin de la maison
From 5 years
Sang-woo is forced to spend his holidays in the countryside with his grandmother,...
Lee Jung-hyang
Year: 2005
Running time: 87min
South Korea
Malin comme un singe
The monkey is one of the twelve animals of the zodiac, and is very important in the Chinese tradition. It...
Pu Jiaxiang, Huang Yongyu, Hu Xionghua, Hu Jinqing
Abbassov Choukhrat
Year: 1985
Running time: 52min
China
Route 225
One evening, Eriko and his brother come back home and find the house empty. The following day,...
Yoshihiro Nakamura
Year: 2006
Running time: 101min
Japan
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Closing film

El secreto de sus Ojos
The Secret in Their Eyes
When he retires in 1999, Benjamin Esposito, a court official, is still tormented by an assassination and...
Juan José Campanella
Year: 2009
Running time: 129min
Spain / Argentina
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