The Silence of the Dying Fish

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Makis is a fish farm worker. Οne morning οn his way to work, he is informed that he died the day before. After failed attempts to prove that he is alive, he accepts his fate with indifference and spends his last day trying to secure the survival of his beloved canaries, until the time of his funeral. (Best Southeastern European Film Award – International Competition, Special Award)
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Direction: Vasilis Κekatos
Script: Vasilis Κekatos
Cinematography: Giorgos Valsamis
Editing: Smaro Papaevangelou
Sound: Yannis Antypas
Actors: Andreas Konstantinou, Aggelos Skasilas, Alexandros Papaioannou, Kostis Tavoularis, Alexandra K*
Production: Blackbird Production, eleni.kossyfidou@gmail.com / ERT SA, microfilm@ert.gr, archives@ert.gr / Tripode Productions, guillaume.dreyfus@gmail.com
Producers: Eleni Kossyfidou
Sets: Eva Goulakou
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Greece
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 19΄
Awards/Distinctions: Best Southeastern European Film Award, Special Award- Drama Festival (2018)

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)