Life is not a competition but I'm Winning

Life is not a competition but I'm Winning ©SchuldenbergFilms

Germany | 2023
Director: Julia Fuhr Mann
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Age Rating: G


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 utopia far from the rigid gender rules in competitive sports.

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