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Back to Life

Athens, Holy Saturday 2020, first lockdown, but also first day of freedom for a severely abused woman. The true story of a 32-year-old woman, who managed to escape from her husband, with the help of another woman, and applied for asylum in Greece. We follow her from the morning, when her detention ends, to midnight, when she celebrates her “resurrection” with people of solidarity. We travel with her to her dark past, but also to her bright future. Her old wounds are revealed, but so are her new joys. Pain gives place to strength, and fear turns to hope. But what about her daughter?

  • Alexia Tsouni
    Director
  • Alexia Tsouni
    Writer
  • FemArtAct
    Producer
  • Alexia Tsouni
    Cinematographer
  • Kostas Douvis
    Assistant Director
  • Yorgos Nikou
    Sound engineer
  • Alexia Tsouni
    Editor
  • Stella Kokkoli
    Lights
  • Iren Kontou
    Subtitles
  • Paper Planes – Durden ft. Airtone
    Music
  • To Mov & Yoga For Good
    Support
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Πίσω στη Ζωή
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 31, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Bangladesh, Greece
  • Language:
    English, Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 8th International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra & Awards 2021
    Ierapetra
    Greece
    August 8, 2021
    Greek Premiere
    Official Selection, Nikos Koundouros Award
Director Biography - Alexia Tsouni

Alexia Tsouni is the director of the documentary “Peace vs Piece” (Palestine, 2019), the documentary “Maurice Montet: objecteur de conscience et pacifiste intégral” (France, 2020), the animation “CoronaViolence” (Greece, 2020), the documentary “Back to Life” (Greece & Bangladesh, 2021), the docufiction “HANTUSH - a fairytale” (Palestine & Spain, 2022), the experimental “Make Art Not War” (Ukraine, 2023), the documentary "Shalom - Salaam - Peace" (Palestine, Israel & the Netherlands, 2024), the documentary "Self-Defence" (Greece, 2024), and the documentary "Innocent" (Greece, 2024), all of them produced by the feminist-artistic-activist “FemArtAct” social cooperative enterprise for collective and social benefit purposes. Alexia Tsouni is a member of WIFT GR - Women in Film and Television Greece and the Greek Documentary Association.

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