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Tack

Feature - 95 min Broadcast - 56 min

Sexual abuse in the Hellenic Sailing Federation

Tack The Olympian who pioneered Greece’s #MeToo movement inspires a younger athlete to come forward with her own abuse. In a milestone trial, Sofia stands with Amalia, who is seeking justice for her own abuse at the hands of her coach when she was a child. The two women achieve a measure of justice but realize that their fight to modernize Greek social norms has only just begun. So, they must tack like sailors maneuvering through the winds of adversity to keep moving forward.


Festivals and Awards

LaurelThessaloniki International Documentary Festival | Official Selection
LaurelInternational Human Rights Festival | The Regional Jury Award
LaurelHuman Rights Film Festival | The Impact Competition

Reviews and More

“Tack not only examines how sexual abuse turned the lives of its two protagonists upside down, but also explores the impact on their loved ones, as well as the ways in which gender discrimination and sexual violence continue to affect millions of women in Greece.” – Variety

TRANSCRIPT

The Producers


Vania Turner – Director

Vania Turner is a Greek-British documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Over the past decade, her work has explored themes of trauma, loss, survival and conflict. As a video journalist she covered humanitarian crises across the Middle East, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, before deciding to shift her focus to observational documentary work. She holds degrees in English Literature and Political Theory. Girlhood, a 30-minute deep-dive into the world of teenage girls in the 2020s, which she co-directed, won several awards and accolades, screening at some of the world’s most important film festivals for children, like the 38th Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and the 24th Olympia International Children’s Film Festival. TACK is her feature-length directorial debut.

Making The Film

"TACK is a deeply intimate documentary that follows two women and elite athletes – Sofia, 43 and Amalia, 22 – whose lives intersect as they seek justice. Sofia and Amalia’s paths cross when Amalia reaches out to Sofia, a two-time Olympic medalist who shares her own harrowing experience of sexual assault by a strongman within the Hellenic Sailing Federation and becomes the catalyst for the #MeToo movement in Greece. From that moment on, a legal battle begins against Amalia’s former coach. Over the course of two years, the film follows and observes the two women as they navigate complex and painful legal proceedings.

Their lives in the film run in parallel: I began filming Sofia as she became a national symbol and met Amalia shortly after she made the difficult decision to take her abuser to court. Throughout these two years, and especially during the trial, my camera became a sort of repository for their thoughts and we grew extremely close. Focusing on them allowed me to begin a deep exploration of complex trauma, revealing the profound impact it has on victims and their loved ones. It also allowed me to move beyond the life of the protagonists to tell the story of a broken criminal justice system, and to show how the insularity of small towns ends up isolating and stigmatizing victims -including children."

– Vania Turner, Director

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