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Juliette Binoche Dodges Question About Cinema Figures’ Gaza Open Letter At Cannes Press Conference
When Cannes Film Festival Jury President Juliette Binoche was asked today why she didn't sign a global film industry open letter condemning the “silence” over the deadly impact of Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza; The English Patient Oscar winner told a reporter "I cannot answer you."
Binoche at this afternoon’s Cannes jury press conference was asked by Al Jazeera English about the open letter that was released on the eve of the festival with signatures from more than 350 cinema world figures including Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Javier Bardem. The young woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike in mid-April just 24 hours after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi’s documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, exploring Hassouna’s life in the Gaza Strip, would world premiere in the parallel Cannes section ACID. Politics, particularly on the global scale, have always found a place here at Cannes, and today Binoche also fielded queries about Donald Trump’s possible film and TV import tariffs as well as the latest guilty verdict dispensed in a Paris court to her Let the Sunshine In co-star Gérard Depardieu for sexual assault on the set of Jean Becker’s The Green Shutters in 2021.
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