For 2023, we staged Subtitle in Plovdiv, which is a city about 80 minutes’ drive from the Bulgarian capital, Sofia and is listed as the oldest inhabited city in Europe. It was the European Culture Capital in 2019 and boasts a stunning ancient Roman theatre at its centre, to name just a couple of highlights. However, it also feels compelling to stage the festival in Bulgaria, a country where the West intersects the East in a whole manner of unique ways.