Van der Bellen at Viennale 2020: "We Need the Film"

More+Events ♦ Published: October 23, 2020; 22:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

The 58th Viennale is currently taking place despite Covid-19 and all the regulations that are in place. Federal President Van der Bellen and director of the festival, Eva Sangiorgi, both emphasize the importance of film even though the pandemic has impacted the industry dramatically.

Federal President Van der Bellen talks at the opening of the 58th Viennale. / Picture: © www.bundespraesident.at / Peter Lechner / HBF

The 58th Viennale is opened.

Vienna has indeed succeeded in doing what this year turned out to be too high a hurdle for Cannes:

to set up a film festival in physical form - albeit with clear cutbacks compared to the editions of the pre-Covid-19 period. …