Vasilis Kekatos

[2] He previously directed the short films Retrograde, Zero Star Hotel and The Silence of the Dying Fish.

[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 the same year, his forthcoming feature film debut, Our Wildest Days, received production funding from Eurimages.