Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

by Julia Fuhr Mann
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films
  • 2023 Schuldenberg Films |  First Hand Films

    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 utopia far from the rigid gender rules in competitive sports.

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

    Festivals

    2023
    38 SIC - Settimana Internazionale della Critica, Venice
    31 FFHH – Filmfest Hamburg
    First Steps Awards Berlin
    8 Queer Film Festival Munich
    33 Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
    MIX Copenhagen
    21 DocLisboa
    30 Queer Film Festival Bremen
    FilmFest Osnabrück
    PinkPanorama Filmfestival Luzern, Switzerland
    Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn, Estonia
    Filmfest Braunschweig
    AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS Berlin
    2024
    41 IFFF Dortmund+Köln
    Women Directors of Photography Documentary Award for Caroline Spreitzenbar
    Crossing Europe FF Linz
    11 dokKa Karlsruhe, Germany
    One World Praha
    5 LETsDOK