Vasilis Kekatos

Vasilis Kekatos (b. 1991) is a writer and director.

He recently became the first Greek filmmaker to ever won the Palme d’or and the Queer Palm for best short film in Cannes Film Festival. With his films “The Silence of the Dying Fish” (2018) and “The Distance Between Us and the Sky” (2019), he has participated and been awarded in many prestigious film festivals, such as the ones of Locarno, Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand and Telluride.

Besides directing, Vasilis has worked on the field of art photography and has made a cover photoshoot for the Greek “Vogue”, focusing on the beauty of diversity. He is currently working on his debut feature film.