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Juliette Binoche Debuts as Director at Morelia, Receives FICM Artistic Excellence Award

The documentary refashions long-shelved family footage of her 2008 dance collaboration with choreographer Akram Khan.

Overview

  • Binoche presented In-I: In Motion at the 23rd Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, marking her first feature as a director.
  • She received the Premio a la Excelencia Artística from FICM founders and unveiled a cinema seat bearing her name at Cinépolis Centro.
  • Binoche said the Morelia screenings were the last showings of the original two-and-a-half‑hour version after deciding to shorten the film.
  • The project draws on roughly 170 hours of material filmed by her sister around 2007, stored for about 15 years and shaped over two years with producer Sebastián Fonseca, following encouragement from Robert Redford in New York.
  • Local media reported that pro-Palestine demonstrators briefly took over her red carpet before the award presentation.