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The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as planned this fall, the region’s governor confirmed on Sunday.

Luca Zaia, governor of Veneto, said the world’s longest-running film festival, which was due to take place Sept. 2-12, is still on, Variety reports.

The official’s confirmation comes days after the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film festival among a number of other arts events, moved its Biennale of Architecture to 2021, but maintained the film festival’s fall dates. Previously, the architecture and film festivals were meant to overlap.

Zaia said on Sunday that the Biennale of Architecture was postponed due to complications in constructing the necessary pavilions. The film festival will proceed, although he warned that there will likely be fewer films this year. 

Italy will reopen its borders for European travellers on June 3, forgoing mandatory quarantine restrictions for inbound travel. The country, which was among the hardest hit by coronavirus in Europe, has slowly come out of lockdown in recent weeks, though it has reported 32,785 fatalities to date.