Nikita Lavretski

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?

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.

The Tiniest Castle of the Nation Found (and for Sale!)

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.

The story of a doomed polycule from Minsk.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Friends recite poetry to each other over Skype.

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 ...

A short documentary by Nikita Lavretski.

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.

Simple story about two Belarusian young people in love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A found footage documentary about a volatile young filmmaking couple.

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

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.

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

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.