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Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

2023-12-14
5.8
de 79m
Documentary
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, a 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.

Director

Julia Fuhr Mann

Writer

Julia Fuhr Mann

Director of Photography

Caroline Spreitzenbart

Sound

Cornelia Böhm

Editor

Melanie Jilg

Editor

Merit Giesen

Status

Released

Countries

  • Germany

Companies

  • Schuldenberg Films
  • ZDF
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München

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