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Taipei Film Festivals Kicks Off Friday As One of World’s First ‘Post-Coronavirus’

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Rebecca Davis editorThe Taipei Film Festival kicked off as a live, physical event Friday, making it likely the first in the world to occur in-person since the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus — albeit without international guests.

Scheduled for June 25 to July 11, the festival will occur ahead of FID Marseille, which will take place with in-person screenings from July 22-26 and has also previously claimed the milestone.Planning a festival in the midst of a global pandemic was a process plagued by unknowns and sudden about-faces, Taipei’s senior program assistant manager Stephanie Su told Variety. “We weren’t sure whether we could even have a physical festival a couple of months ago.

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