Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

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

Directed by Julia Fuhr Mann

Documentary · 1h 19m

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.

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Cast

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Annet Negesa Self
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Amanda Reiter Self
C
Caitlin Fisher Self
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Daniel Marin Medina Self Chun Mei Tan Self Eva Maria Jost Self
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Jakob Levi Stahlberg Self
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Oumou Aidara Self
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Greta Graf Self

Crew

Director
Julia Fuhr Mann
Writer
Julia Fuhr Mann
Director of Photography
Caroline Spreitzenbart
Editor
Merit Giesen, Melanie Jilg
Producer
Sophie Ahrens, Kristof Gerega, Fabian Altenried

Details

Release date
2023-12-14
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
Germany
Production
Schuldenberg Films, ZDF, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München