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Christos Nikou

Christos Nikou

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Biography

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 the feature films Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos) and Before Midnight (Richard Linklater), as well as 4 Black Suits, Nobody, Christmas Tango, A Greek Type of Problem, 7 Kinds of Wrath, and Approach. His first feature film with him in the directing seat was Apples (2020).

Known For

Dogtooth
7.0

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.

Dogtooth

2009
Before Midnight
7.5

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.

Before Midnight

2013
Apples
6.4

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.

Apples

2021
Fingernails
5.9

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.

Fingernails

2023
The Christmas Tango
7.2

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.

The Christmas Tango

2011
A Greek Type of Problem
5.8

"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.

A Greek Type of Problem

2013
Nobody
6.7

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.

Nobody

2011
Approach
4.0

Strangers find themselves trapped inside five elevators that break down. Tension rises. There is no communication; just angry men and women bringing the worst out of each other. This is hell in 4m².

Approach

2019
4 Black Suits
5.0

Four undertakers in financial trouble latch onto a one-off opportunity to change their lives and bid farewell to a profession they entered for a while, but got stuck in for good. On the promise of a large fee, they fulfill the dying wish of a rich Greek who lived his life abroad: he wants them to take his body from Athens to a village in Boeotia for burial...on foot. Deciding to grant his bizarre request, they embark on an odyssey, which soon becomes an unexpected voyage of discovery.

4 Black Suits

2010
7 Kinds of Wrath
3.7

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?

7 Kinds of Wrath

2014
Inseparable
N/A

March 2020. As the Covid-19 epidemic is declared, movement restrictions are put in place and social life is disrupted. Inseparable tells the story of a group of friends who still find a way to connect and share their thoughts with each other.

Inseparable

2020
Maasai
5.0

A hospital's quiet waiting area becomes the setting for a confrontation between two brothers as they wait for their mother to come out of surgery.

Maasai

2014
km
5.5

‘A man. A woman. In a car. Fastened. Immobile. Blood. Silence.’ A suitably skewed short, from the team that brought us Dogtooth and Attenberg.

km

2012
Metaxourgeio
N/A

Metaxourgio* is a famous and historical neighborhood of Athens, Greece. The film captures a stroll through today's Metaxourgio neighbourhood and focuses on its "refinement" of recent years. Michalis Afolayan, actor, street musician, juggler and son of Nigerian immigrants, plays the role of guide.

Metaxourgeio

2008