Vasilis Kekatos

Director

October 8, 1991 (34 years)

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 pre…

Filmography

8.2

Milky Way

Follows 17-year-old Maria, a high school senior with dreams of becoming a dancer, whose starry-eyed plans for the future are put on hold when she gets pregnant by her boyfriend Tasos.

6.3

Our Wildest Days

20-year-old Chloe leaves her dysfunctional family to follow a group of romantic outsiders and help the forgotten of society. During her travel through a shattered Greece, she will dream, fly, and fall in love but also she’ll realize that the true rebels are always alone.

7.0

The Silence of the Dying Fish

Makis works at a fish farm. One morning, as he goes to work, he's told he’s dead… since the day before. After trying in vain to prove he's very much alive, all that remains is to accept the situation and find someone who will take care of his canaries before the funeral.

6.3

The Distance Between Us and the Sky

Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22 euros he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.

7.8

As You Sleep the World Empties

Humanity has been struck by a pandemic. People from around the globe have fallen asleep and nobody knows when they're waking up. Only few of them haven't been infected. Among them, there's a boy who fell in love with a girl right before the outbreak of the epidemic. With an old camera, he tries to capture the beauty that's left in the world, so the girl can see it when she wakes up.

4.0

Zero Star Hotel

Two men are talking inside a car. One of them is dead.

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Steps (To Spread My Wings)

In a society where everyone moves copy-paste, a couple “breaks” the matrix. They remember, fall in love, escape.

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Retrograde

Trapped in the futility of luxury and conventional happiness, a woman is leaded to self-destruction in order to break free or simply escape her daily routine.

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