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Nikita Lavretski

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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”.

17-01-1994

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

24

Total Films

Nikita Lavretskiy, Никита Лаврецкий, Мікіта Лаўрэцкі

Also known as (female)

Minsk, Belarus

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

24 Works

producer

7 Works

director

116 Works

writer

21 Works

other

51 Works

COOL (News from Belarus)

COOL (News from Belarus)

In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.
0.0

Year:

2023

The Murder on Alibegova Street

The Murder on Alibegova Street

The story of a doomed polycule from Minsk.
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Year:

2022

A Date in Minsk

A Date in Minsk

Nikita and Volha have been maintaining a dysfunctional relationship for the past 8 years. In the following movie they play fictional Nikita and Volha who have only just met. Can anything be started anew at the end of history?
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Year:

2022

The Bear's Lair

The Bear's Lair

A self-portrait in winter. The director is taking a short rest among the key locations of his life. He reminisces about places forgotten, years gone by, and friends gone away.
1.0

Year:

2022

Alexey Suhanok: Stand-Up In the Swamp

Alexey Suhanok: Stand-Up In the Swamp

The most postironic comedian of Belarus Alexey Suhanok performs with a double solo program "Пакет панчлайнов" / "Белоруссия" in a forest swamp during the Independence Day.
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Year:

2021

The Release

The Release

A short comedy documentary about my brother's short career in actionism.
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Year:

2021

Lyosha Lyashenko: Idrak's Underpants

Lyosha Lyashenko: Idrak's Underpants

Lyosha Lyshenko, the enfant terrible of Russian-language stand-up, tells jokes about maniacs, the rapper Husky, and Idrak Mirzalizade's underpants, but mainly he performs tricks, dances, and stunts.
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Year:

2021

Movie Talks & Quiz

Movie Talks & Quiz

After Mike’s so-called friends decline his invitations to discuss movies, he enters the exciting new world of webcam movie buddies.
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Year:

2020

Nikita Lavretski

Nikita Lavretski

A cycle of mundane violence, lust for art, and existential dread—all chronicled in an unconventional self-titled docu-horror by Nikita Lavretski, who violently edits lo-fi footage of himself from age 0 to age 16.
5.0

Year:

2019

Drama

Drama

Three directors make a movie about the events of their past week. Relationships, work, and day-to-day personal struggle—the minute details still fresh on their minds—are shown with unseen crystal clarity that challenges the very notion of dramatic fiction.
7.0

Year:

2019

Two Angry Men Walking Over a Bridge

Two Angry Men Walking Over a Bridge

The filmmakers get confronted by strangers asking help with their political statement.
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Year:

2017

Sad Music

Sad Music

A short documentary by Nikita Lavretski.
5.5

Year:

2017

Cinemagic

Cinemagic

Aspiring directors Lev Zaretski (a sadist) and Ruslan Romanov (an anime MC) will show you how to properly write a screenplay; cast actors; do a film shoot; and answer questions from annoying film festival attendees.
8.0

Year:

2017

A Few Scenes with My Girlfriend Olechka Kavaliova

A Few Scenes with My Girlfriend Olechka Kavaliova

A found footage documentary about a volatile young filmmaking couple.
5.0

Year:

2016

Belarusian Psycho

Belarusian Psycho

A self-proclaimed videographer prodigy sets out to lose his virginity as the 21st birthday present to himself. Not only does he manage to persuade a female acquaintance and two of her friends to come to his dacha, he makes sure they watch a retrospective of his work, and his seduction dances, in full. A terrifying night lies ahead of them.
6.0

Year:

2015

Amerykan Boy

Amerykan Boy

Maxim, yearning for the departing image of old Minsk, meets his friend Yanka, whom he had not seen for a year while he was studying in America ...
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Year:

2015

Pochemu zakrylas Galereya 12?

Pochemu zakrylas Galereya 12?

A documentary about the closure of a very strange gallery of modern art, which been exists about two months in the center of Minsk in the spring of 2015 and attracted an average of 0-4 visitors per day. In the role of the founder of the gallery — actionist artist Dmitry Veleskevich.
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Year:

2015

Poetry

Poetry

An ex-couple who write poems experience a curious synchronicity online.
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Year:

2015

Getting Caught by the Rain

Getting Caught by the Rain

After getting caught in the summer rain, the director hides under the edge of an abandoned shed. A feeling of being "in the moment" follows.
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Year:

2014

Every Day Love

Every Day Love

Simple story about two Belarusian young people in love.
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Year:

2014

TO RUTH:

TO RUTH:

A psychological thriller telling the story of a hikikomori obsessed with a female vlogger. The screenplay is based on the now-deleted blog by "quickpaws321", a man obsessed with Rose from the randytaylor69 channel.
0.0

Year:

2012

Magicians of Belarus

Magicians of Belarus

Magicians in Minsk can be found performing magic tricks every day. What made them choose this career path?
0.0

Year:

2012

Neil in Love

Neil in Love

A friendzoned teen deals with rejection by felling trees with his bare hands.
0.0

Year:

2011