A major part of this work centred on the official Festival catalogue, a publication of around 400 pages published in German, Italian, French and English. For many years, I also worked on the Piazza Grande Guide, alongside editorial and marketing content for the Festival.

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My role went beyond editing, proofreading and translation. I helped develop the Festival’s language guidelines in four languages, defining terminology, tone and editorial conventions to create a consistent linguistic framework across its publications and communications. This meant looking beyond individual texts to the Festival’s multilingual voice as a whole. Subsequent external reviews confirmed the high editorial and linguistic standard of the catalogue.

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Another significant part of my long-standing collaboration with the Festival was interpreting in five languages for Open Doors, its platform for developing and supporting international film projects. These were working conversations around specific artistic projects, production questions and potential collaborations.​ The work was immediate and shaped by the people involved. It called not only for linguistic precision, but for an understanding of different cultural perspectives, individual ways of communicating and the particular dynamics of conversations about ideas still taking shape.

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Over two decades, editorial work, multilingual communication and cultural mediation became closely intertwined — in publications, across the Festival’s communications and in direct encounters with the people behind the films and projects.​

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