Taipei Film Festival Going Ahead Without Overseas Visitors

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The Taipei Film Festival will go ahead in June, making it one of the first significant festivals to do so in the post-coronavirus era. While its film selection is international, audiences will be e…

Organizers announced Monday that the festival will open on June 25 with the world premiere of Taiwan-made “.” It will close on July 11, with a screening of “Days,” by Tsai Ming-liang, which appeared in competition in Berlin and earned a special mention in the Teddy section for gay film.

Berlin, in late February, was one of the last major film festivals to take place before the COVID-19 outbreak became a pandemic that struck Asia, Europe and North America. Since then a string of high profile festivals including those at Cannes, SXSW, Hong Kong and Shanghai, have been canceled or postponed. Others, such as Sydney and Melbourne, initially canceled this year’s program, but then reversed tack and will become online-only events.

The festival will be run in accordance with recommendations and regulations of the Central Epidemic Command Center. Organizers warned that if a large-scale group infection occurs in Taiwan within two weeks before the film festival starts, or during the film festival, the event will be immediately cancelled.

“All overseas filmmakers and judges originally scheduled to be invited during the festival will have their invitations canceled. Since there are no overseas filmmakers in the international new talent competition, the physical award ceremony will be canceled and the winner lists will instead be announced online,” organizers said.

 

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