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

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.

Released Dec. 14, 2023 79 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Drama, Sport

Keywords: imdb.lgbtqia, imdb.running, imdb.debut-feature, imdb.venice-film-festival, mdblist.has-trailer, aspectratio.2-35-1

Production Companies: ZDF, Schuldenberg Films, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF)

Country: Germany
Production Country: Germany
Languages: German