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Juliette Binoche to Receive the Award for Artistic Excellence at the 23rd FICM

The exceptional actress and director Juliette Binoche, Guest of Honor at the 23rd Morelia International Film Festival (FICM), is to receive the Award for Artistic Excellence in recognition of her extraordinary career and invaluable contributions to the film industry. This award, a sculpture created by Michoacan artist Javier Marín, has been given to important creators like Alfonso Cuarón, Robert Redford, Claire Denis, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Francis Ford Coppola.

The Oscar® winner will return to the festival eleven years after her first visit during the 12th FICM. This time, she will present her film In-I: In Motion.

In 2007, Juliette Binoche and British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan left their established careers behind to embark on a daring artistic experiment. Over seven months, they co-created In-I, an intense and revolutionary show they performed 100 times around the world.

Now, Binoche revisits that intimate journey. From the first spark of inspiration to the final applause, she traces the emotional and creative arc of a unique collaboration. Drawing on dozens of hours of previously unseen footage, this filmmaker reflects on the nature of artistic creation, the vulnerability and exhilaration of taking risks, and the personal transformation they demand of us.

About Juliette Binoche

With a career spanning more than forty years and marked by artistic curiosity, Juliette Binoche (born in Paris, France, in 1964) has worked on about seventy films. It all began with André Téchiné's Rendez-vous, which premiered at La Croisette in 1985. Four decades later, she has become an international movie star whose work has prompted unexpected collaborations and screenplays that she cherishes deeply. In 2010, she received the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami's, Certified Copy. Her fifth film in the festival's Official Selection was followed by another four, the most recent being Trân Anh Hùng's, The Taste of Things (2023). Despite being the recipient of the most prestigious awards (Oscar®, Bafta, César, Best Actress at the Berlin and Venice film festivals), Binoche is not interested in virtuosity but relies solely on emotion and the elusive truth of the moment. This is no doubt what makes her so versatile and unpredictable in her art, or rather, in her various artistic endeavors, as she bounces between film, TV (The Staircase, The New Look), theater (with Ivo van Hove), dance (her work with Akram Khan), music (Alexandre Tharaud), and painting.

#FICM2025 will take place from October 10th to October 19th. The festival will hold screenings in Morelia, Michoacán, as well as virtual screenings through nuestrocine.mx. There will be pre-opening screenings on October 9th. The opening screening of the 23rd FICM will take place on October 10th, 2025.

We will soon reveal more information and details about the program and ticket sales through www.moreliafilmfest.com and FICM's social media accounts.