Life is not a competition but I'm winning

Story

HYBRID Do men really run faster than women? The film shines a light on the stereotypical gender relations in sport. A collective of queer athletes in the Olympic Stadium in Athens honour those excluded from a place on the podium: the trans marathon runner Amanda Reiter, who has to fight the prejudice of event organizers – and the 800m runner Annet Negesa, who was urged to have a hormone-changing operation by international sports organisations. Together, they create a radical, poetic Utopia far away from rigid gender rules.

Director

JULIA FUHR MANN (*1987 in Ingolstadt) studied documentary film-making at the HFF Munich. She was co-founder of a queer-feminist film network and is part of the Queer Media Society. Her short film Riot Not Diet (2018) won numerous prizes worldwide.

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