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Karlovy Vary Film Festival Canceled, but Plans Select Screenings and Online Industry Section

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By Leo Barraclough Senior International Correspondent Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, Central and Eastern Europe’s leading cinema event, has canceled this year’s edition due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Instead, it will offer a selection of movies from its lineup in theaters across the Czech Republic, as the country prepares to open up cinemas again.

It will stage its industry program online. “We strongly believe that seeing a movie with other people in a theater is a powerful and irreplaceable experience,” said Jiří Bartoška, president of the festival. “And because the Karlovy Vary Intl.

Film Festival is one of the most important cultural events in the Czech Republic, we have decided that holding an alternative version would go

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