
Person
Vasilis Kekatos
Directing · Born 1991-10-08 · Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece
Biography
Vasilis Kekatos (Βασίλης Κεκάτος, 1991) is a Greek film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 2019 short film The Distance Between Us and the Sky, which was the winner of the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. He previously directed the short films Retrograde, Zero Star Hotel and The Silence of the Dying Fish. In 2021, he entered production on Milky Way, a teen drama television series. The series, centring on the tribulations facing a teenage girl who gets pregnant, premiered in 2023. In 2023, he received production funding from Eurimages for his debut feature film, Our Wildest Days (I Agries Meres Mas).[7] The film was selected in the Generation 14plus section at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere in February 2025.
Known for

Our Wildest Days
2025

Milky Way
Director

The Silence of the Dying Fish
Director

Steps (To Spread My Wings)
Director

When I Smile My Eyes Close
Thanks

The Distance Between Us and the Sky
Director

As You Sleep the World Empties
Narrator

Zero Star Hotel
Writer

Retrograde
Screenplay
Filmography
- 2025Steps (To Spread My Wings)Director
- 2025Our Wildest Days
- 2023Milky WayDirector
- 2020When I Smile My Eyes CloseThanks
- 2020As You Sleep the World EmptiesNarrator
- 2019The Distance Between Us and the SkyDirector
- 2018The Silence of the Dying FishDirector
- 2016Zero Star HotelWriter
- 2015RetrogradeScreenplay
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