Vasilis Kekatos
Directing
- Born
- October 8, 1991 (age 35) · Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece
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
Behind the camera7
- 2025Steps (To Spread My Wings) Director, Writer
- 2025Our Wildest Days Director, Co-Producer, Screenplay
- 2020As You Sleep the World Empties Writer, Script, Director, Editor
- 2019The Distance Between Us and the Sky Director, Writer
- 2018The Silence of the Dying Fish Director, Writer
- 2016Zero Star Hotel Writer, Director, Editor
- 2015Retrograde Screenplay, Director
Acting2
- 2025Our Wildest Days as Angelos