LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I’M WINNING
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) |
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