Directing
Christos Nikou
EN, EL, SL, FR cinema · 14 credits
Born
1 January 1984 (age 42)
Birthplace
Athens, Greece
Also known as Христос Нику
Christos Nikou (Greek: Χρήστος Νίκου, 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
Filmography
Fingernails
Producer, Director, Writer
Apples
Director, Writer, Producer
Inseparable
as Himself
Approach
First Assistant Director
7 Kinds of Wrath
First Assistant Director
Maasai
Assistant Director
A Greek Type of Problem
Assistant Director
Before Midnight
Assistant Director, Extras Casting
km
Director, Writer
Nobody
Second Assistant Director
The Christmas Tango
First Assistant Director
4 Black Suits
Second Assistant Director
Dogtooth
Second Assistant Director, Script Supervisor
Metaxourgeio
Director of Photography, Director, Sound