By Manori Ravindran International Editor The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as planned this fall, the region’s governor confirmed on Sunday.
Luca Zaia, governor of Veneto, said the world’s longest-running film festival, which was due to take place Sept. 2-12, is still on.
The official’s confirmation comes days after the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film festival among a number of other arts events, moved its Biennale of Architecture to 2021, but maintained the film festival’s fall dates.
Previously, the architecture and film festival were meant to overlap. Zaia said on Sunday that the Biennale Architettura was postponed due to complications in constructing the necessary pavilions.
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