The slate is led by Irish/Portuguese time-bending adventure The Girl Who Fell Through Time.
Beta’s boutique label Beta Kids & YA brings the newly acquired Irish/Portuguese time-bending adventure The Girl Who Fell Through Time (8×25’) to this year’s MIPJunior.
The series explores identity, belonging, and friendship through the eyes of a girl caught between past and present. Other highlights include the moving football series Chameleon (28×12’) and the thrilling series Somebody’s Lying (49×15’).
The Girl Who Fell Through Time is Beta Kids & YA’s first Irish Gaelic-language production, with Eamonn Norris and Bruno Oliveira (Payback) serving as directors. The series follows a 17th-century Portuguese girl who appears in modern-day Ireland, where she makes three teenage friends. Together, they help her navigate the unfamiliar modern world and figure out a way to get her back home. The series, set to premiere in 2027, is produced by Tailored Films in co-production with BeActive Media & Éiru Films for TG4, NOS, ICA, Screen Ireland & Coimisiún na Méan, and stars Michelle Ní Fátharta, Jeaic Breathnach, Roisín Murphy, Jeaic Ó Scanláin, João Jesus (Cats Don’t Have Vertigo) and Carolina Carvalho (Bem Bom).
Chameleon tells the story of four football talents who share one dream and tackle issues of class, race, and inequality. Directed by Tonje Voreland and Ingvild Nielsen, Chameleon is an NRK production that was nominated as Best Children’s and Youth Program at the 2026 Gullruten Award. The series, starring Lucas Lopes Patey, Daniel Matteo Kielland, Philip Strand Ottersen, and Ylva Røsten-Haga, shows the complexities of friendship, the pain of exclusion, and the universal desire to fit in, experiences shared by teenagers everywhere.
It has the emotional intensity of Skam and the burning suspense of Riverdale: Award winning Somebody’s Lying (NRK) is a YA thriller series and a character-driven mystery told through young eyes. Directed by Miriam Sunde and Eirin Nilssen Vikøren, Somebody’s Lying won the International Youth Jury (11-15) Award at the 2026 Prix Jeunesse. The cast includes Andrea Tveit-Schjerven, Heine Røsten-Haga, Edwige Simakala, Matias Hagerup Kacelnik, Camilla San Miguel Bjørneng, Robin Levent Akay and Anette Hoff (Home for Christmas).
Other highlights of the Beta Kids & YA line-up include:
Between the Beats (26×3’) is a micro drama that shows what happens when K-pop meets ROMEO & JULIET. The music-driven coming-of-age vertical drama, directed by Tatjana Wenig, follows an aspiring ballerina torn between her parents’ expectations, a forbidden first love, and the future she longs to create for herself. The series stars Gio Yoo, Alexander Schmidt, Lisa Junick and Kotti Yun. (Saxonia Media Filmproduktionsgesellschaft GmbH / Radio Bremen / Saarländischer Rundfunk (ARD))
Just Call Me Frida (1x2h’) follows Samuel, who after being declared cured, steps back into life but is freaked out by the fear of losing it again. When he meets Frida, a young apprentice of Death, they are off to a rough start. But soon they teach each other the value and joy of living. The film is directed by Oscar-nominated director Katja Benrath (Watu Wote: All of Us, Rocca Changes the World), starring Arian Wegener (Sisi), Kelani Rose, Golo Euler (The Grand Budapest Hotel), and Lucie Heinze (Professor T). (Neos Film/ Tellux Film/Mideu Films/ IT Media/ Gretchenfilm/ Tellux 1-13/ Medienproduktion/ SWR/ BR/ MDR/ Beta Film/ Katholisches Kirchenwerk/ D Facto Motion/ Guesswho FX/ Magic Media Production)
Bibi Blocksberg – Witches Unite! (1x2h) is a live-action family feature, directed by Gregor Schnitzler (School of Magical Animals). The film stars Nala, Rosalie Thomass, Heike Makatsch (Love Actually) and Friedrich Mücke (Ballon). Bibi, the teenage witch, and her friends crash the grand International Witches’ Gathering. But when Bibi’s magic spirals out of control, she must fix the mess before a strict headmistress seizes power and silences young witches forever. KINOZEIT praised the film as “Family cinema with heart”. (Wiedemann & Berg Film/Kiddinx Studios/EPO-Film)
With The School of Magical Animals 4 (100’) the beloved franchise returns after its predecessors already grossed over $64.5 million at the German box office alone. Nominated for Best Visual Effects at the German Film Awards 2026, it is directed by Maggie Peren (The Forger) and Bernhard Jasper. Ida’s friend Miriam stays at the Winterstein School for three months, but a secret threatens to tear them apart. And what’s worse: The school is up for sale, and the entire magical community is at stake! Will an upcoming school challenge be the saving grace? (Kordes & Kordes Film Süd/Leonine Studios/Lightburst Pictures)
Pumuckl’s Big Mix Up (90’, NEUESUPER) is the first feature film stemming from the hit series Pumuckl’s New Adventures: It’s summertime, and the adventures never stop! But when Pumuckl and Master Eder have a great misunderstanding, their friendship is put to the test. Helmed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller, the feature film stars Florian Brückner, Ilse Neubauer and Gisela Schneeberger.
