She never received a certificate, nor an award ceremony. “You just want to have a different runner on the winner’s podium than a transsexual woman,” says marathon runner Amanda Reiter from Lenggries. She and a runner from Uganda are the focus of the hybrid documentary “Life is not a competition, but I’m winning”. It’s about the rigid gender segregation in competitive sports, about queer female athletes who were denied the top places at the Olympics and other competitions.
The film is a documentary, essay, political statement and performance at the same time; it experiments with genre forms and questions gender conventions. The director Julia Fuhr Mann studied at the HFF Munich, and in September she was invited to the Venice Festival with her film, where it was shown in the “Settimana Internazionale della Critica” section. It is now starting regularly in cinemas: Julia Fuhr Mann will be on a cinema tour in the coming days, attending screenings in Munich, Nuremberg (on December 15th) and in her hometown of Ingolstadt (on December 16th).
Life is not a competition, but I’m winning, D 2023, directed by Julia Fuhr Mann, Thursday, December 14th, 8:15 p.m., monopolySchleißheimer Straße 127, the film is also regularly shown in Monopol and City Kino