Jack Thorne’s Lord of the Flies adaptation and Isabel Allende adaptation The House of the Spirits will have premieres at the Berlinale Special TV series sidebar.
Lord of the Flies, which launches later this year on the BBC and Stan, will be given a European premiere while Allende’s show for Prime Video has a world premiere in a few weeks’ time in the German capital.
The pair of high-profile shows are joined in the Berlinale TV section by Germany’s House of Yang, HBO Max Spain’s Ravalear, Heysel 85 about the stadium disaster and another BBC show, Mint, which comes from Scrapper director Charlotte Regan.
Lord of the Flies is one of the BBC’s most high-profile adaptations in a while. The iconic William Golding novel tells of a group of children stranded on an island who attempt to remain civil but begin to fight. House of the Spirits, meanwhile, comes from the popular Chilean author, follows three generations of the revolutionary and resilient Trueba women through a remote and conservative South American nation of upheaval, disaster and magic. It was previously made into a 1993 movie from Bille August.
On the movie side, Charli XCX’s The Moment and Sunny Dancer starring Bella Ramsey and Neil Patrick Harris have been added to the lineup.