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Cannes Film Festival postponed over COVID-19 concerns

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The 2020 edition of Cannes Film Festival, the mecca of movies, has been postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak and its rapid spread across the world.
The Festival was scheduled for May 12 to 23, however organisers said in a statement that  this cannot happen and scenarios for end of June – beginning of July are on their table.
“As soon as the development of the French and international health situation will allow us to assess the real possibility, we will make our decision known,” the statement reads.


The Cannes Film Festival, which kicked-off for the first time in 1946, has only be cancelled once since then, in 1968, during the so-called May 68, when the festival ended a week early, due to French students’ demonstration, urging organisers to stand in solidarity with them against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism and traditional institutions.

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