Series to Watch: Berlinale 2026

Series to Watch: Berlinale 2026


By DQ
February 11, 2026

Ones to Watch

Ahead of the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival, which begins tomorrow, DQ puts the spotlight on five series that are set to premiere in the German capital.

House of Yang
From: Germany
Original broadcaster: SWR
Director: Mia Spengler
Producer: Wood Water Films
Starring: Elisa Hofmann, Purnima Grätz, Andrea Guo, Emma Bading and Vladimir Burlakov
World premiere date: February 19
This six-part horror-mystery series from creator and showrunner Stefanie Ren opens in 1949 as a girl disappears from an isolated house in the Black Forest. Fifty years later, another girl disappears. Now, in the present, the ghosts of the past step out of the shadows once more.

La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)
From: Chile
Original broadcaster: Prime Video
Directors: Francisca Alegría and Andrés Wood
Producer: FilmNation Entertainment
Starring: Alfonso Herrera, Dolores Fonzi, Nicole Wallace, Fernanda Castillo and Antonia Zegers
World premiere date: February 16
Launch date: 2026
Led by showrunners Alegría, Wood and Fernanda Urrejola, and based on Isabel Allende’s book, The House of the Spirits follows three generations of the revolutionary and resilient Trueba women through a remote and conservative South American nation of upheaval, disaster and magic.

Lord of the Flies
From: UK
Original broadcasters: BBC (UK), Stan (Australia)
Director: Marc Munden
Producer: Eleven
Distributor: Sony Pictures Television
Starring: Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, David McKenna and Ike Talbut
European premiere date: February 13
Launch date: February 8
Innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys become desert island castaways in the first television adaptation of William Golding’s landmark dystopian classic.
Watch trailer here
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Mint
From: UK
Original broadcaster: BBC
Director: Charlotte Regan
Producers: House Productions, Fearless Minds
Distributor: BBC Studios
Starring: Emma Laird, Ben Coyle-Larner, Sam Riley, Laura Fraser and Lindsay Duncan
World premiere date: February 15
Launch date: 2026
Mint is a love story about a crime family. And it’s not your usual gangster series – there are no shootouts or drug deals. Instead, the story is told through the eyes (and the imagination) of the family’s daughter, who is desperately searching for love.
Read more here

Ravalear (Ravalear: Not For Sale)
From: Spain
Original broadcasters: HBO Max, 3Cat
Directors: Pol Rodríguez and Isaki Lacuesta
Producer: Arcadia
Distributors: Filmax, Supernova, Umedia
Starring: Enric Auquer Sardà, María Rodríguez Soto, Sergi López, Quim Ávila and Francesc Orella
World premiere date: February 17
In Barcelona’s El Raval neighbourhood, family-run restaurant Can Mosques faces closure after an investment fund buys the building. The family’s fight to survive escalates, pushing them to cross any and all boundaries.

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