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Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning (2023)

Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning (2023)

Documentary
Release Date: 2023, December 14
Directors: Julia Fuhr Mann
Countries: Germany
Production: Schuldenberg Films, ZDF, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
Cast: Annet Negesa, Amanda Reiter, Caitlin Fisher, Daniel Marin Medina, Chun Mei Tan, Eva Maria Jost, Jakob Levi Stahlberg, Oumou Aidara, Greta Graf

Overview:

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.