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LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I’M WINNING

by Julia Fuhr Mann

synopsis

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.

international title: Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning
original title: Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning
country: Germany
sales agent: First Hand Films
year: 2023
genre: documentary
directed by: Julia Fuhr Mann
film run: 79'
screenplay: Julia Fuhr Mann
cinematography by: Caroline Spreitzenbart
film editing: Lena Hatebur
art director: Sonja Schreiber, Mireia Vila Soriano
costumes designer: Angela Queins
producer: Fabian Altenried, Sophie Ahrens, Kristof Gerega
co-producer: Melissa Byrne, Katya Mader
production: Schuldenberg Films, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF), Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Photogallery 01/09/2023: Venice 2023 - Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

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Julia Fuhr Mann, Beatrice Fiorentino, Amanda Reiter, Chun Mei Tan, Caroline Spreitzenbart
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