This year’s Viennale Film festival will welcome actress Juliette Binoche as its special guest.
Always reinventing herself in a variety of award-winning roles Binoche is best known for her edgy performances in Les Amants de Pont Neuf (1991), Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993), The English Patient that won the Academy Award in 1997, and most recently, in 2023 La Passion de Dodin Bouffant. She is also noted for her TV particularly The New Look where she played Coco Chanel.
This year’s 63rd festival runs from 16 – 28 October and Juliet Binoche will present her first film as director IN-I IN MOTION that sees her unite with dancer-choreographer Akram Khan for a behind the scenes look at their 2007 stage production ‘In-I’.
The film takes us from the creative laboratory of the rehearsals to the final performance, where decor and lightning contribute greatly to enliven and enhance all that we’ve seen sketched out in the preceding scenes.
The Viennale’s Cristina Álvarez López describes how IN-I IN MOTION captures the incredible amount of energy and intensity that Binoche and Khan invest in this risky journey into unknown territory. While both artists excel in their respective fields, their joint experiment required them to move beyond their comfort zones, each wrestling with an unfamiliar language in order to express themselves. The original performance revolved around the different stages of a love relationship, offering a poignant reflection about the walls both internal and interpersonal that we encounter when trying to engage with someone different to us. The film cleverly reconfigures and expands this theme by showing creation as a collaborative act, insisting on the capacity of art to push boundaries.
VIENNALE 16 – 27 OCTOBER 2025