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The Lab of Cultural, Creative and Festival Journalism | Articles from Trieste Film Festival 2026

→ Articles, reviews and interviews written during the Trieste Film Festival 2026 by the participants:

Let European Women Live - Berenika Balcer

Bearing the Fallout: Zhanana Kurmasheva’s We Live Here - Berenika Balcer

A Talk About Work: Interview with Călin Boto - Diana Maria-Voinea

What about Fantasy? - Diana Maria-Voinea

From Abkhazia to Kartli: The Directors of Kartli Kingdom on Three Decades of Neglect - Interview with Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel - Levan Tskhovrebadze

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele and the Appearance of Evil - Levan Tskhovrebadze

Brother – How Trauma Slowly Drips Through Walls - Marcello Casalino

Found & Lost – The Only Hope for Immigration Is Individuality - Marcello Casalino

The Visitor by Vytautas Katkus: What Do We Grow up for? - Marcello Casalino

Sound of Falling: Women’s Melancholy of Vanishing Through Different Eras - Vedrana Bogdanović

Vytautas Katkus’s The Visitor: Loneliness That Liberates - Vedrana Bogdanović

Interview with Ivana Mladenović, director of Sorella di Clausura:“Sex is Commerce” - Vedrana Bogdanović and Diana Maria-Voinea

Through our partnership with Cineuropa, an article by a participant from the latest Lab at Les Arcs Film Festival has been published on the Cineuropa website : https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/488408

The participants worked under the guidance of senior journalist Marta Balaga. She has published in Cineuropa, Variety and regularly contributes to Finnish film magazine Episodi.

We warmly thank: Berenika Balcer, Diana Maria-Voinea, Levan Tskhovrebadze, Marcello Casalino, Vedrana Bogdanović.

The Trieste Film Festival is the widest Italian festival dedicated expressly to Central and Eastern European cinema. The well-established international prestige of the Festival is due primarily to an openness and visionary view to ever more extensive and unusual areas of interest, but also timely attention to the quality of events which then in many cases are destined to dominate the international scene.