Nikita Lavretski
Directing · Born Jan 17, 1994 · Minsk, Belarus
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”.
Directed
Smarty
2026
Filmtelligence
2026
Self-Portrait at Thirty
2026
Idrak Mirzalizade: This Never Happened
2025
Ulysses
2024
COOL (News from Belarus)
2023
The Murder on Alibegova Street
20226.0
A Date in Minsk
2022
My Poopfriend
2022
Jokes About War
2022
The Bear's Lair
20221.0
A Kid's Flick
2021
Alexey Suhanok: Stand-Up In the Swamp
2021
The Release
2021
Lyosha Lyashenko: Idrak's Underpants
2021
Movie Talks & Quiz
2020
Nikita Lavretski
20197.0
Sasha's Hell
20197.5
Drama
20197.0
Two Angry Men Walking Over a Bridge
2017
Sad Music
20175.5
Cinemagic
20178.0
Love & Partnership
20166.8
A Few Scenes with My Girlfriend Olechka Kavaliova
20165.0
Kinomantra
2016
Minsk Does Not Have a Young Face
2016
Belarusian Psycho
20156.7
Amerykan Boy
2015
Pochemu zakrylas Galereya 12?
2015
Poetry
2015
Dasha and Alisa at Present Time
2014
Getting Caught by the Rain
2014
A Birthday in Minsk
2014
Every Day Love
2014
Lost in the Woods
2013
Loud Music
2013
Neil and Love
2013
TO RUTH:
2012
Magicians of Belarus
2012
Far Away and Not Soon
20124.5
Neil in Love
2011
