The extraordinary adventure of the Olympic champion Josefa Idem, a woman who has learned to fly on her canoe, daily defying limiting ideas. She is 40 years old, has perticipated in 6 Olympic Games, won a gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 and a silver medal in Athens in 2004. Josefa Idem is an example of reaching the heights, living and maintaining very different dimensions in her own life: sport, family, work and social engagement. The words, the sounds of which have left her native country, Germany, for Italy, fully confirm that there is a true possibility for the new Europe.
Director
GIAN ENRICO BIANCHI
Born in 1970, he graduated in photography at the Experimental Cinematography Centre of Rome. As an assistant cameraman he collaborated with Luca Bigazzi (“Morte di un matematico Napoletano”, “ Lamerica”, “un’ anima divisa in due”). As a cameraman he partecipated in the production of “Un eroe borghese” and in other films with directors of photography such as Vincenzo Marinese and Regis Blondeau. In 1999 he obtained the Kodak Prize for the best photography at Turin Film Festival.