Organizers of the Melbourne International Film Festival confirmed today that the event will be cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event’s 2020 edition had been scheduled to ru…
The event’s 2020 edition had been scheduled to run August 6-23, meaning this is one of the earlier decisions being taken by a festival. Yesterday, Munich, the second-largest such fest in Germany,Cannes Film Festival, which had been due to run in May but pushed to late June due to the disruption, remains one of the last holdouts in the spring/early summer festival calendar.
The Melbourne decision marks the first time in the fest’s 69-year history that it won’t be staged. Artistic Director Al Cossar said the decision was “very hard but plainly necessary, responsible and required given what we all face together at this moment”. “The thought of a winter without MIFF in our city is a disorienting one; deeply disappointing to both our organisation, and I’m sure, our community…It is a decision that was very hard but plainly necessary, responsible and required given what we all face together at this moment. Our thoughts rush to those who make MIFF what it is year after year, and what it will return to be.
Organizers added that, in the absence of a festival, they would consider “other means of continuing to engage audiences”.
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