Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong International Film Festival will shift to new dates in August, having been postponed earlier this year due to the COVID pandemic.The 46th edition of the festival will take place Aug.
15-31, 2022, at multiple venues across the territory. Like last year’s HKIFF45, the hybrid festival will feature in-person and online screenings and events.The annual spin-off event, Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival, which usually takes place around the same time in August, will be shelved and likely return in 2023.The main HKIFF was scheduled to have started on March 31.
But the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus sparked a fifth wave of infections that, in Hong Kong’s case, were by far the most numerous and most deadly.
The city’s cinemas were closed from early January until Thursday this week and even now can only operate at reduced capacity.
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