‘Tack’ Takes Intimate and Powerful Journey Into Charges of Sexual Abuse That Sparked Greece’s #MeToo Movement
variety.comChristopher Vourlias When two-time Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou revealed in 2020 that she had been raped by a senior member of the Greek sailing federation while competing for the national team, she inspired dozens of other women to break their silence, sparking the country’s #MeToo movement.
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.
Those revelations and the ensuing trial are the focus of Turner’s urgent and moving documentary, which chronicles the systemic abuses committed by men in positions of power in Greece and the broader societal culture of denial that allows those abuses to continue.
The film follows both Provelengiou’s search for justice and Bekatorou’s efforts to push for changes to the Greek penal code, whose statute of limitations prevents her from bringing charges against her own alleged rapist.
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