SELF-DEFENCE

22-year-old Greek P. kills in self-defence the 46-year-old man who tried to rape her, and is imprisoned in 2016. She starts a correspondence with one of the solidarity women who support her, and expresses what she experiences in prison, but also in her body and soul.

  • Alexia Tsouni
    Director
  • P.
    Writer
  • Cinevangelos
    Camera
  • Alexia Tsouni
    Editing
  • Georgia Tsouni
    Subtitles
  • FemArtAct Social Cooperative
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 7, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Greece
  • Country of Filming:
    Greece
  • Language:
    Modern Greek (1453-)
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
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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