Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

Name: Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning
Director: Julia Fuhr Mann
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-12-14
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Annet Negesa, Amanda Reiter, Caitlin Fisher, Daniel Marin Medina, Chun Mei Tan

2023 · 79 min · ★ 5.6 · Documentary

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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