Directing
Nikita Lavretski
Nikita Lavretski (1994, Minsk, Belarus) is “the most interesting gagman of the invisible Belarusian scene” (per Cahiers du Cinema). His debut feature “Belarusian Psycho” (2015) won the Best Belarusian Film Award at Minsk International Film Festival Listapad. In 2018, he completed a master's degree in film studies at Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Since 2020, his dissident movies, blending fiction and nonfiction, screened at ArtDocFest, DAFilms, Filmadrid and Doclisboa, with “A Date in Minsk” winning the International Competition at the latter festival. His writing on cinema and TV has appeared in “Iskusstvo Kino”, “Afisha”, and “Outskirts”.
Filmography
Self-Portrait at Thirty
Film · 2026
Filmtelligence
Film · 2026
Idrak Mirzalizade: This Never Happened
Film · 2025
The Other Side
Film · 2024
The Tiniest Castle of the Nation Found (and for Sale!)
Film · 2023
COOL (News from Belarus)
Film · 2023
A Date in Minsk
Film · 2022
The Bear's Lair
Film · 2022
The Murder on Alibegova Street
Film · 2022
Lyosha Lyashenko: Idrak's Underpants
Film · 2021
The Release
Film · 2021
Alexey Suhanok: Stand-Up In the Swamp
Film · 2021
Movie Talks & Quiz
Film · 2020
Nikita Lavretski
Film · 2019
Drama
Film · 2019
Two Angry Men Walking Over a Bridge
Film · 2017
Sad Music
Film · 2017
Cinemagic
Film · 2017
A Few Scenes with My Girlfriend Olechka Kavaliova
Film · 2016
Kinomantra
Film · 2016
Belarusian Psycho
Film · 2015
Amerykan Boy
Film · 2015
Pochemu zakrylas Galereya 12?
Film · 2015
Poetry
Film · 2015
Getting Caught by the Rain
Film · 2014
Every Day Love
Film · 2014
TO RUTH:
Film · 2012
Magicians of Belarus
Film · 2012
Neil in Love
Film · 2011