The Cannes Film Festival will not be held "on schedule" from May 12 to 23 due to the coronavirus epidemic, but could be postponed to a later date, its organizers announced Thursday evening in a press release.
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“Today, we have made the following decision: the Cannes Film Festival cannot be held on the scheduled dates, from May 12 to 23. Several hypotheses are being studied in order to preserve their progress, the main one of which would be a simple postponement, in Cannes, at the end of June - beginning of July 2020, "the press release said.
