Christos Nikou was born in Athens in 1984.
His short film KM screened in over 40 international film festivals, including those of Rotterdam, Stockholm, Palm Springs, Sydney, Tallinn Black Nights, Interfilm Berlin, while it was named Best Short Film at Motovun Film Festival in Croatia.
For the past ten years, he has worked as assistant director on many feature films including Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos and Before Midnight by Richard Linklater.
The title of his first feature film is Apples.