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The 2024 edition of the Atlantic International Film Festival, the 44th edition in the event's history, will be held from September 14 to 21, 2023 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.[1] The first films in the program were announced on July 25,[2] with the full program announced on August 14.[1]
The event was scaled back to an extent from previous years, with a program of 96 features and shorts compared to almost 200 in the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Festival chief Martha Cooley attributed this decision both to residents of the Halifax area still having a greater reticence in returning to large scale public events after the pandemic than people in other parts of Canada, and to the perception that as Halifax has a smaller population than cities like Toronto or Vancouver, audiences were being "pulled too thin" by past programs that were approaching the size of TIFF or VIFF.[3]
^ abBarry Hertz, "Halifax’s Atlantic International Film Festival sharpens programming and size to stand out in shadow of TIFF"]. The Globe and Mail, August 14, 2024.
