By Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Udine’s Far East Film Festival, one of the world’s top film meetings for Asian cinema, will become a wholly online event this year, organizers announced on Tuesday.
The 22nd edition of the festival was previously postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak from its traditional late-April slot to a new position at the end of June.
Now, with COVID-19 still rampant within much of Europe, including northern Italy, the festival has chosen to stick to its new dates, rather than postpone again.
Instead it will undergo a transformation and become virtual. Italy has declared 220,000 cases of coronavirus, making it the fifth most infected country in the world.
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