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‘Tack’ Takes Intimate and Powerful Journey Into Charges of Sexual Abuse That Sparked Greece’s #MeToo Movement
The feature debut of Vania Turner delves into Greece's first #MeToo case against a sailing official accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.
In her feature-length directorial debut, “Tack,” which premiered this week at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greek-British filmmaker Vania Turner follows one such story: the shocking case of a younger sailor, Amalia Provelengiou, who alleged she’d been repeatedly abused and raped by her coach — beginning when she was only 12 years old. It is a shocking glimpse of both the cultural and institutional biases stacked against a woman who decides to come forward with accusations of sexual assault in Greece, with one mother blaming Provelengiou for her horrifying ordeal and defense attorneys insisting that the then 12-year-old was “in love” with their client and a “sly fox” who set out to seduce him. Greece currently ranks last in the E.U.’s Gender Equality index, and Turner admits, “We have a long way to go.” While some critics maintain the country’s #MeToo movement stalled, and that few men in positions of power were ultimately held accountable for their actions, the director insists that tangible progress has been made.
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