European Film Awards: EFA President Juliette Binoche on importance of cinema

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Ahead of the European Film Awards in Lucerne, Switzerland, new European Film Academy President and multi-award winning actress Juliette Binoche tells Euronews Culture why cinema matters now more than ever.

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00:00We're here in Lucerne, Switzerland for the biggest night in European cinema, the European

00:05Film Awards, Europe's answer to the Oscars. We spoke to the new president of the European

00:11Film Academy, Juliette Binoche, about why cinema is more important now more than ever.

00:17Going into a movie, you're going to a place of a mindset, a spirit. Words will stay with

00:25you. Some emotion will stay with you. And it's going to be enlightening your life.

00:31It's not going to resolve your life, but it's definitely is going to do something. That's

00:35why the choice of your film is so important. Don't go and see any film just to have time.

00:41You really have to pick up the film. You think it's going to be something of your, you know,

00:46intuition is going to, you know, it's going to change something in you.

00:50More of that interview on our website in the coming days. And you can follow the full ceremony

00:54of the European Film Awards on Euronewsculture.

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