Life is not a competition but I'm winning
Kinofest 2024

Documentary, 2023, 79 min
Director: Julia Fuhr Mann
Writers: Julia Fuhr Mann, Luisa Nöllke
Age Rating: 13+
Languages: English, German with English and Vietnamese subtitles
 

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 and Annet Negesa. Together they create a radical poetic utopia far from the rigid gender rules found in competitive sports.

Trivia/Awards/Nominations:

• 80th Venice International Film Festival Critics Week Competition (Intl. premiere)
• Filmfest Hamburg (nomination)
• First Steps Award Berlin (nomination)
• Filmfest Osnabrück (nomination)
• Doc Lisboa (nominated)