Cannes Short Film Winner Vasilis Kekatos Makes Feature Debut With Spirited, Coming-of-Age Berlinale Premiere ‘Our Wildest Days’
variety.comChristopher Vourlias After winning the Palme d’Or and the Queer Palm at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for his strangers-in-the-night short film “The Distance Between Us and the Sky,” Greek director Vasilis Kekatos makes his feature debut with the coming-of-age road drama “Our Wildest Days,” which premieres Feb.
15 in the Generation 14plus strand of the Berlin Film Festival. Starring Daphne Patakia (“Benedetta”) alongside a cast of newcomers, “Our Wildest Days” follows Chloe (Patakia), a hard-headed young woman who runs away from her dysfunctional family to join a band of outsiders living off the grid.
Crossing Greece in a mobile home and helping the poor in unconventional ways, she finds refuge in her offbeat family — and in the spirit of solidarity she discovers among the many Greeks living on the margins.
The film, which is being sold by Kinology, is produced by Greece’s Blackbird Prods. and France’s Tripode Prods., in co-production with Belgium’s Hélicotronc and Germany’s Achtung Panda.
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