13 minutes – 2020 – Drama, experimental
VASILIS KEKATOS
Born in Kefalonia, Greece in 1991, Vasilis Kekatos is a graduate student of the film department of Brunel University’s School of Arts, in London.
In 2016, he won Sundance Ignite “What’s Next?” Short Film Challenge and received a mentorship from Sundance Institute, with his short Zero Star Hotel. In 2017, he participated in Euro Connection in Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, as well as in Nisi Masa ESP, with the script of his short, The Silence of the Dying Fish. The film had its world premiere in Locarno Film Festival 2018 in the international Competition Pardi di Domani and had its US premiere in Sundance Film Festival 2019.
His short The Distance Between us and the Sky won the Palme d’or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. He is also the artistic director of Sea Nema Open Air Film Festival, a festival in which the movies are screened in seafront areas arranged specially for the occasion. In 2025 he directed his DEBUTE feature film Our wildest days, which premiered in Berlin International Film Festival.
An epidemic has hit mankind. People from all ends of the Earth are asleep, and no one knows when they’ll wake up. Few are those who are not infected; among them, a boy who fell in love with a girl right before the disease outbreak. With an old camera, he attempts to capture what beauty is left, so that the girl can see it once she awakens.
CAST
Narration: Vasilis Kekatos
CREDITS
DIRECTOR: Vasilis Kekatos
SCREENPLAY Vasilis Kekatos
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Giorgos Valsamis
MUSIC: Pavlos Pavlidis
EDITING: Vasilis Kekatos
SOUND: Valia Tserou
Title Design & Poster: Nikos Pastras
AWARDS
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IN DRAMA
Official Competition
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