Butterfly

Butterfly

80 mins | Documentary | April 4, 2019

Eighteen year old Irma Testa is Italy’s first female boxer to make it to the Olympics. It’s a remarkable outcome for a girl raised in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of Naples.. The more Irma succeeds though, the more fragile she becomes. After a crushing defeat at the Games in Rio, she questions whether boxing is her future. She wants to chart her own path, but must first take a hard look at her personal life which she has avoided for so long.

Butterfly

80 mins | Documentary | April 4, 2019

Butterfly
Eighteen year old Irma Testa is Italy’s first female boxer to make it to the Olympics. It’s a remarkable outcome for a girl raised in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of Naples.. The more Irma succeeds though, the more fragile she becomes. After a crushing defeat at the Games in Rio, she questions whether boxing is her future. She wants to chart her own path, but must first take a hard look at her personal life which she has avoided for so long.
Producers Indyca, Rai Cinema
Original title Butterfly
Directors Casey Kauffman, Alessandro Cassigoli
Writers Casey Kauffman, Alessandro Cassigoli, Guido Iuculano

Cast

Irma Testa

as Herself

Lucio Zurlo

as Himself