Films by Shinya Kitamura

2015, 71 min
by Miguel Müller-Frank

Kilian (24) and Thomas (26) are successful poker players and part of a clique of young German players who have met over the years during various poker events. They travel totournaments together, share the stakes, are friends and 'business partners'. They hardly have time to reflect upon their lives as there is always the next tournament, the next poker session coming up. Alternating between live and online poker they are in limbo between the daily ups and downs of the game, between winning and losing. The film is an unusual portrait of the two players taking the audience into a kind of parallel world in which victory and defeat go hand in hand.

Germany 2013, 74 min
by Elí Roland Sachs

A young man takes a deep breath in and out again, then he swallows air to fill his lungs. Meditation and therapy, exercises for breath through breath control, artificial lungs and the voluntary transition boundary to the edge of unconsciousness. From the first to the last breath, from the martial artist to the boys’ choir: as simple and self-evident breathing seems at first glance, so complex and effective it is when we look closer. The film BREATH lives from the recent discovery of an everyday action that every person exercises every day a thousand times.

Germany 2009, 90 min
by Karin Jurschick

"...in terms of language, we participate in the creation of social reality, of the community..." (Framework of the curriculum of integration courses) Since January 1st, 2005 there has been a new Immigration Act in force in Germany. Integration is ordained.Whoever wants to stay here had better get to know Germany: with 600 language lessons and 45 lessons on orientation.The film tracks people from China, Somalia, Afghanistan, Morocco and other countries through their courses: what are they supposed to know in order to be able to integrate in Germany?