Shorter Berlin Film Festival to go ahead with masks, COVID testing
Festival films will be shown in cinemas around the capital in public screenings.


Berlin: The Berlin Film Festival will go ahead in person next month but will use only half the available seating capacity and require attendees to adhere to strict COVID-19 protocols, organizers said on Wednesday.
With the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreading fast in Germany, the organizers of the Berlinale, as it is widely known, have been at pains to make the festival happen in a safe environment after it went online last year.
The Berlinale starts on Feb. 10, culminating in an awards ceremony on Feb. 16 where the Golden and Silver Bears will be handed out, meaning the festival will be slightly shorter than planned, organizers said in a statement. It normally runs for 10 about days.
For four days after that, festival films will be shown in cinemas around the capital in public screenings.
To allow social distancing, seating capacity in festival cinemas will be reduced by 50% and no parties or public events will be held, although there will be a pared back version of the red carpet at premiere cinemas, said the organizers.
SOURCE: Reuters

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