Vasilis Kekatos
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Vasilis Kekatos is a Greek film director and screenwriter.[1] 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.[2]
He previously directed the short films Retrograde, Zero Star Hotel and The Silence of the Dying Fish.
The Distance Between Us and the Sky, a gay-themed film, was also the winner of the Queer Palm for LGBTQ-related short films.[3] Kekatos dedicated his Palme d'Or win to the memory of his uncle, a gay man who emigrated from Greece to Australia in youth and whom Kekatos credited with having influenced his own attitudes toward homosexuality.[1]
In 2021, he entered production on Milky Way, a teen drama television series.[4] The series, centring on the tribulations facing a teenage girl who gets pregnant, premiered in 2023.[5]
In 2024, he was one of four industry figures whose selection for the Greek committee to select the country's submission to the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film was rescinded a few days after it was announced.[6]
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.[8]
