Every year, on July 31, Mrs. Irene and the last remaining “fifteeners” return to the Monastery of the Accession, on the south end of Therasia, the little known sister island of cosmopolitan Santorini. They spend the next two weeks living in the cells of the obsolete Monastery, honoring their life-time vow to the Virgin and continuing the tradition of “Fifteen”. The film questions issues of faith, identity and gender by correlating three female bodies: the deserted body of the once upon a time fertile Therasia, the sacred body of the Virgin Mary and the aging, human body of the “fifteeners”.

“Across her body” (2018, documentary, Greece, 84’)

DIRECTION & SCRIPT Zacharias Mavroeidis

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Zoe Manda

EDITING Smaro Papaevangelou

PRODUCTION Zacharias Mavroeidis, Vicky Micha, Boo productions, ERT A.E., Momento Films