Christos Nikou

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Christos Nikou

Born January 1, 1984 · Athens, Greece (age 42)

Christos Nikou (born 1984; Athens) is a Greek film director and screenwriter. His short film Km (2012) participated in over 40 international film festivals, including Rotterdam, Stockholm, Palm Springs, Sydney, Tallinn Black Nights, and Interfilm Berlin. It won him the Best Short Film Prize at the Motovun Film Festival of Croatia. For the past ten years, he has worked as an assistant director on …

Known For

Before MidnightBefore Midnight · 2013
Before Midnight
7.52013
MovieRomanceDrama
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
DogtoothDogtooth · 2009
Dogtooth
7.02009
MovieDrama
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
FingernailsFingernails · 2023
Fingernails
6.02023
MovieRomanceScience Fiction
Anna and Ryan have found true love together. It's been proven by a controversial test. There's just one problem: Anna still isn't sure. Then she meets Amir.
NobodyNobody · 2011
Nobody
6.42011
MovieDramaRomance
Goran and Julia, Russian and Albanian, are two teenagers immigrant second generation, two children with dreams and ambition to escape the environment grew. Things for both young people will become even more complicated when their paths meet. Love is lightning, but the two worlds collide, threatening to destroy the first thrill they feel about each other.
The Christmas TangoThe Christmas Tango · 2011
The Christmas Tango
7.32011
MovieDramaRomance
At the time of the Greek junta, in an isolated army camp, a lieutenant forces a soldier to teach him the tango in order to ask the wife of his Colonel to dance with him.
kmkm · 2012
km
5.82012
MovieDrama
‘A man. A woman. In a car. Fastened. Immobile. Blood. Silence.’ A suitably skewed short, from the team that brought us Dogtooth and Attenberg.
ApplesApples · 2021
Apples
6.32021
MovieDramaComedy
As an unpredictable, sweeping pandemic causes people to develop sudden amnesia, a man finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help him build a new life. His treatment: performing daily tasks prescribed by his doctors on cassette tape, and capturing those with a Polaroid camera.
A Greek Type of ProblemA Greek Type of Problem · 2013
A Greek Type of Problem
5.82013
MovieComedy
"Everything will be fine" the doctor promised Jo while she was giving birth to her first child. But, some forty years and four sons later, nothing is happening like it should be during this month of August: as she arrives on Greek soil to organize her traditional festival with her tribe, Jo learns that the latter has been cancelled, courtesy of the economic crisis. The hour seems to be tragic but the maternal instinct grows stronger, she is ready to do everything for the happiness of her sons. Between squabbles and blood and destiny blows, this summer will be like no other.

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7 Kinds of Wrath7 Kinds of Wrath · 2014
7 Kinds of Wrath
3.72014
MovieDrama
Petros is a gay archaeologist who experiences the naked Greek paranoia in the center of Athens. Either by choice or coincidence, he comes into contact with people who are "different": An Arab immigrant, who comes to Greece, a land of "infidels", determined to conquer it by any means; A Greek-French cello player, who is burdened by the agony of her alcoholic mother; A young Albanian pianist, who carries the curse of his own personal genius and divinity; A Greek immigrant, who was repatriated but now has nowhere to call home; A bank director, who believes everything can be bought, even love; A patrolman, who creates his own version of socio-political reality. Petros' contact with these people is in fact a traumatic experience. For each encounter he has to pay a price. Sometimes the price is material, while other times it's emotional. At times it is both. Will the experience gained make up for the loss?

First Assistant Director