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Shanghai Film Festival canceled due to COVID crisis AzerTAg.az China’s most prestigious film festival, the Shanghai International Film Festival has officially been canceled for this year, according to Variety. The festival is normally held in mid-June. The 25th edition of the festival will instead be held next year, in 2023. The decision to cancel this year’s festival outright is a sign of the continuing difficulties under which the film industry is currently operating in China. In 2020, the festival moved its dates from June to August, after cinemas endured a five-and-a-half-month period of closure running from late January to early...
