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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Melbourne International Film Festival Cancelled for First Time in 69 Years
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Melbourne International Film Festival is cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that it would not be staged for the first time since 1952.

The festival later offered a shortened program that they called MIFF 68 1/2, offered entirely online.

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