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Mumbai Film Festival Postponed to Next Year Amid India's Virus Outbreak

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The Mumbai Film Festival is postponing its 22nd edition to 2021 as India continues to grapple with a worsening outbreak of the novel coronavirus.

The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI), the organizers behind India's biggest international film festival, said it made the decision to postpone the event in light of the "devastating pain and suffering across the country and uncertainty over the reopening of cinemas in Mumbai." An announcement of new dates for the 22nd edition will be made soon.

India currently has the third highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world with 1.855 million as well as 38,938 deaths as of Tuesday. “It is with a heavy heart that we have decided to postpone the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2020 to next year," said.

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