The Little Italy Open Air Film Fest, a beloved Baltimore tradition since 1999, will be on hiatus for the summer of 2018, organizers have announced. But they hope that a new and improved festival will return in 2019.

“Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the festival,” said Mike Castino, vice-president of the Little Italy Lodge of the Order Sons of Italy, an Italian heritage organization that recently resumed responsibility for running the event. “We are committed to doing what we need to do to get the film festival together for next year. It’s too big and too important to this neighborhood to just let it die.”