Cannes Film Festival 'may be put off till summer'

The Cannes Film Festival, the world's biggest, may be pushed back to the summer this year from its usual May date because of the Covid-19 crisis, organisers said on Wednesday, according to The Straits Times.

The festival, scheduled for May 11 to 22, "will certainly take place in 2021", a spokesman told Agence France-Presse, but could be postponed to a time between the end of June and the end of July.

The festival was cancelled last year, while rival European events in Berlin and Venice went ahead under strict health restrictions.