Argyro Nicolaou is a filmmaker and scholar based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work deals with the representation of history, displacement, and intergenerational memory in post-conflict, postcolonial societies, like her home country of Cyprus. Argyro’s short films have screened at festivals and art exhibitions in Europe and the US, including Tallinn Black Nights, Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, Drama International Short Film Festival (Greece) and Gallatin Galleries (NYU). Her feature documentary Unsettled (My Sea) was part of the Museum of Moving Image’s 2025 First Look Festival (Works-in-Progress section) and was selected for the UnionDocs 2024 Early Production Lab. Her debut feature fiction script, Excavators, supported by the Cyprus Cinema Fund and the Midpoint Institute, won one of the Works in Development Awards at Karlovy Vary’s Eastern Promises Industry event in 2023 and went on to win the Jury and Audience Awards at the Connecting Cottbus Co-production Market that same year.
Argyro holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University, and has taught film and literature courses at Bard, Columbia and Princeton. She is a member of the European Film Academy, the International Documentary Association and the Directors Guild of Cyprus. She is also one of two Artistic Directors for Cyprus Film Days International Festival.