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Special: Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning

In the presence of the director and with a special supporting film program

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Monday,  12.08.2024
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City Kinos

The end of stereotypical gender categories in competitive sport is still a long way off. Where in the binary world of sport do queer people find their place? A historical-utopian hybrid, light-hearted and profound. With the supporting film RALENTIR LA CHUTE (SLOW DOWN THE FALL) by Camille Tricaud & Franziska Unger about the reunion of two female ski jumpers at an advertising shoot for their sponsor. Filmed on 16mm.

Guests: Julia Fuhr Mann und Franziska Unger

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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.

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