Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game? A collective of queer athletes enters the Olympic Stadium in Athens and sets out to honour those who were excluded from standing on the winners’ podium. They meet Amanda Reiter, a trans* marathon runner who has to struggle with the prejudices of sports organisers, and Annet Negesa, an 800m runner who was urged by the international sports federations to undergo hormone-altering surgery. Together they create a radical poetic utopia far from the rigid gender rules found in competitive sports.

Country:

Germany

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

79 minutes

Year:

2023

Director:

Julia Fuhr Mann

)}

Company:

Schuldenberg Films,

ZDF,

Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München

Cast:

Self

Self

Self

Self

Self

Crew:

Director

Sound

Writer

Editor

Producer