DIE MITTE DER WELT

This summer has seen Berlin-based filmmaker Jakob M. Erwa making a long-cherished dream come true by bringing Andreas Steinhöfel’s best-selling 1998 novel The Center of The World to the cinema screen in his third feature film. The coming-of age-tale centers on 17-year-old Phil who lives with his non-conformist mother Glass and twin sister Dianne in a crumbling mansion on the edge of town. When not poring over books in the library at home, Phil spends time with his best friend Kat going shopping or just hanging out. But this all changes when the school term begins again and his sights fall on Nicholas, the enigmatic new boy in class, with whom he embarks on a passionate affair...

photo © Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion/Martin Valentin Menke