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Vasilis Kekatos

Vasilis Kekatos

Director · Born October 8, 1991 · Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece

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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.

Directed 8

2020s

  1. 2025

    Steps (To Spread My Wings)

    Director

  2. 2023

    Milky Way

    Director

  3. 2020

    As You Sleep the World Empties

    Director

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Distance Between Us and the Sky

    Director

  2. 2018

    The Silence of the Dying Fish

    Director

  3. 2016

    Zero Star Hotel

    Director

  4. 2015

    Retrograde

    Director

Wrote 8

2020s

  1. 2025

    Steps (To Spread My Wings)

    Writer

  2. 2023

    Milky Way

    Writer

  3. 2020

    As You Sleep the World Empties

    Writer

2010s

  1. 2019

    The Distance Between Us and the Sky

    Writer

  2. 2018

    The Silence of the Dying Fish

    Writer

  3. 2016

    Zero Star Hotel

    Writer

  4. 2015

    Retrograde

    Screenplay

Edited 2

2020s

  1. 2020

    As You Sleep the World Empties

    Editor

2010s

  1. 2016

    Zero Star Hotel

    Editor

Acted in 1

Other crew 1

2020s

  1. 2020

    As You Sleep the World Empties

    Script

Produced 1

Created 1

2020s

  1. 2023

    Milky Way

    Creator

Appearances1

2020s

  1. 2020

    As You Sleep the World Empties

    Narrator

Thanked in the credits1

2020s

  1. 2020

    When I Smile My Eyes Close

    Thanks