The Zero Years

The Zero Years
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Nikos Nikolaidis
Produced by	Nikos Nikolaidis
Written by	Nikos Nikolaidis
Starring	Vicky Harris Jenny Kitselli Arhontisa Mavrakaki Eftyhia Yakoumi Michele Valley Alkis Panagiotidis Yiorgos Mihalakis Maria Margeti Nikos Moustakas Angeliki Aristomenopoulou Dorothea Iatrou Anastasia Iatrou Nefeli Efstathiadi Christos Houliaras Themis Katz Natasa Kapsabeli
Music by	Simeon Nikolaidis
Cinematography	Sifis Koundouros
Edited by	Giorgos Triandafyllou
Production company	Last Picture Pro. Greek Film Center
Distributed by	Greek Film Center Restless Wind
Release date	25 November 2005 (Thessaloniki International Film Festival)
Running time	126 Minutes
Country	Greece
Language	Greek

The Zero Years is a 2005 Greek dramatic experimental independent underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis, his final film.

A tale of perversion and sexual dominance set in a dystopia, the film is about four female prostitutes, all of whom were sterilized, engaging in sadomasochism with johns.

The film's art director, Marie-Louise Bartholomew, won the Best Production Designer Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival's Greek State Film Awards in November 2005. In addition, the film was officially selected for screening at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 2005 and in October 2006 where, during both times, it was nominated for the Gold Hugo.

Professor Vrasidas Karalis, an expert on Greek cinema and the author of A History of Greek Cinema, described in this book the film as "highly personal" and "hermetic."Derek Elley of Variety argued that the film, despite "excesses," has a "strain of irony" that remains constant and that it has an "off-center, ironic flavor." Karalis argued that it was derivative of Nikolaidis' earlier films and that it "confirmed the fossilization of a visual style which had transformed itself into a self-conscious manneristic extravaganza."