Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning
Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning (original)
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.
Starring Annet Negesa, Amanda Reiter, Caitlin Fisher, Daniel Marin Medina, Chun Mei Tan, Eva Maria Jost, Jakob Levi Stahlberg, Oumou Aidara, Greta Graf
Watch "Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning" on Mubi released in 2023. It's a documentary movie, and has a rating of 6.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.