The Distance Between Us and the Sky

The Distance Between Us and the Sky

Night has fallen on the old National Highway. Two strangers meet for the first time at a wretched gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. He is €22.50 short for getting back to Athens. This is exactly the cost of the distance separating them from the sky.
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Direction: Vasilis Kekatos
Script: Vasilis Kekatos
Cinematography: Giorgos Valsamis
Editing: Stamos Dimitropoulos
Sound: Yannis Antypas, Persefoni Miliou, Valia Tserou
Music: The Boy
Actors: Nikolakis Zeginoglou, Ioko Ioannis Kotidis
Production: Blackbird Production
Producers: Eleni Kossyfidou
Co-production: Authorwave, Tripode Productions
Sets: Eleana Thalassoudi
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece, France
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 9´
Contact: Επικοινωνία/ContacEleni Kossyfidou, eleni.kossyfidou@gmail.com
Awards/Distinctions: Palme d'Or (Best Short Film), Queer Palm (Short Film) – Cannes FF 2019, Best Director, Honorary Distinction for Best Male Actor (Nikolakis Zeginoglou), Special Mention (Ioko Ioannis Kotidis) – Drama Short FF 2019

Vasilis Kekatos

Vasilis Kekatos, born in 1991, is a Greek writer, director and Sundance Institute fellow. In 2018, with his short film “The Silence of the Dying Fish”, he was selected and awarded in many important film festivals, such as Locarno, Sundance, Palm- Springs, and Tallinn Black Nights. With his film The Distance Between Us and the Sky he won the Palme d'Or for best short film, as well as the Queer Palm, in the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The film continued its festival run with the most significant stations being Sarajevo, Clermont-Ferrand, AFI and Telluride, for which it was selected by Barry Jenkins. During the first lockdown of 2020, responding to an invitation by the Onassis Foundation, Vasilis created As you Sleep the World Empties, an experimental short film which was a great success online and later secured distribution in movie theaters. His work has been critically acclaimed in various well-known international publications, such as the Hollywood Reporter, Screen Daily, New York Times and Sight & Sound. Besides being a film director, Vasilis has also been involved in art photography, having been commissioned by Vogue and Gucci to photograph the international model Winnie Harlow, among other works. He recently finished working on Milky Way, a limited-series which he wrote and directed. The show premiered in the official competition of Series-Mania and has already been bought by Fifth Season. Vasilis’ debut feature film is in the stage of post-production and it is scheduled to come out in 2024.

Filmography

2018 The Silence of the Dying Fish (short)
2019 The Distance Between Us and the Sky (short)
2020 As You Sleep the World Empties (short)
2023 Milky Way (TV series)