11 TATINO world premieres in August and September 2026
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Festival season has started, and it's shaping up to be a landmark stretch for TATINO. Over the next two months, 11 TATINO-supported films will make their world premieres across five major festivals — Locarno, Sarajevo, Venice, Toronto, and San Sebastián — a lineup that reflects the full breadth of what TATINO's labs and residencies have nurtured over the past years.
Spanning four continents, these 11 films come from Canada, Croatia, Chile, Georgia, Germany, Greece, India, Jordan, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden, and are directed by 5 men and 6 women. From intimate family dramas to genre-bending debuts, they represent the range of voices TATINO is proud to nurture — many shaped through First Cut Lab, First Cut+, and our residency programmes along the way.
Here's a closer look at what's premiering, where, and when.
🐆 Locarno Film Festival
CONCRETE LAND by Asmahan Bkerat TOMORROW A LONG TIME AGO by Luise Donschen
Locarno is in full swing, and two TATINO films are making their world premieres there. Since its inception, the festival has been home to the most daring, avant-garde, irreverent, and innovative forms of cinema — and that's sure to hold true for these two films:
At Semaine de la Critique, CONCRETE LAND by Asmahan Bkerat took part in First Cut Lab Doha. The film follows three generations of a Palestinian Bedouin family in Jordan as they navigate displacement, prejudice, and family tensions with love, humour, and resilience.
🎥: 13 August
At Concorso Cineasti del Presente, TOMORROW A LONG TIME AGO by Luise Donschen participated in First Cut Lab Hamburg and First Cut+ Trieste. Set during German reunification in 1990, the film follows Patty as personal loss leads her on a surreal journey through memory, history, and transformation.
🎥: 14 August
❤️ Sarajevo Film Festival
EVERYTHING THAT’S WRONG WITH YOU by Urša Menart FRAGMENTS OF BELONGING by Tatjana Božić
The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival has revealed its full lineup and we were delighted that two films workshopped at First Cut Lab RE-ACT will premiere in the feature and documentary competitions:
EVERYTHING THAT’S WRONG WITH YOU by Urša Menart in the Narrative Feature Competition 🎥: 16 August
FRAGMENTS OF BELONGING by Tatjana Božić in the Documentary Competition 🎥: 18 August
🎭 Venice Film Festival
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CH. PHAEDRA by Jacqueline Lentzou GURIA by Levan Koguashvili
Venice brought massive news for First Cut Lab Paris 2026. Two films workshopped at this inaugural lab, held onsite in Paris, have been selected for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival!
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CH. PHAEDRA by Jacqueline Lentzou has been selected for Orizzonti 🎥: 8 September
GURIA by Levan Koguashvili will screen in Venice Spotlight 🎥: 9 September
🍁 Toronto International Film Festival
TOY GUN BANDIT by Rémi Saint-Michel in the Centrepiece Programme 
DOROTHY by Karthik Subbaraj in the Centrepiece Programme 
BRACE YOUR HEART by Amanda Kernell in the Platform Competition
Canada also brought wonderful news as the 51st edition of TIFF will welcome three world premieres in Platform & Centrepiece programmes of TATINO-supported films! Coming from Canada, India, and Sweden, all First Cut Lab alumni, we are very proud to present:
TOY GUN BANDIT by Rémi Saint-Michel also in the Centrepiece Programme 🎥: 10 September
DOROTHY by Karthik Subbaraj in the Centrepiece Programme 🎥: 11 September
BRACE YOUR HEART by Amanda Kernell in the Platform Competition 🎥: 15 September
🌼 San Sebastian Film Festival
ERRATICS by Thomas Woodroffe SANTS by Mikel Gurrea
As San Sebastian announced its first films selected, we were thrilled to see 2 TATINO supported films making the cut:
ERRATICS by Thomas Woodroffe in the New Directors Competition. It was supported by TATINO through its Pop Up Film Residency Focus CoPro. 🎥: 22 September
SANTS by Mikel Gurrea in the festival’s Main Competition. The film was supported by TATINO through First Cut Lab On Demand and most recently presented at the Munich Film Festival as a First Cut+ Munich project, 🎥: 24 September
