Berlin Film Festival is forging ahead with plans for an in-person celebration this February, though the new Omicron COVID-19 variant is forcing conversations about contingency plans, multiple individuals familiar with the matter told Variety.While festival insiders described the group as “determined” to gather in-person, there have been talks about pushing the event as far out as June from its current scheduled run of February 10-20, 2022.
A delay is widely seen as preferable to mounting a virtual festival, sources said, which Berlin did in 2021 as the Delta variant ran rampant around the globe.Rumors of the potential changes started swirling this week when Medienboard, Berlin’s film and TV fund, announced it was pushing its lavish annual.
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