
Nikita Pavlov
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Biography
Nikita Pavlov is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. He was born in Moscow and worked as a professional photographer for over a decade in Russia and Israel. He eventually shifted his focus to cinema while studying in Jerusalem, where he wrote, directed, and filmed his first feature documentary, When New Year Comes on Shabbat. Since then, he has relocated to Berlin, where he currently works as a cinematographer producing content for major media players like Bloomberg, Forbes, and more. His notable works include documenting Alexey Navalny's return to Russia for the Oscar-winning movie Navalny. Nikita specializes in working with people and conducting interviews, creating documentaries on various complex topics like LGBTQIA+ and migration.
Known For

After Megamind, a highly intelligent alien supervillain, defeats his long-time nemesis Metro Man, Megamind creates a new hero to fight, but must act to save the city when his "creation" becomes an even worse villain than he was.
Megamind

Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
Navalny

A cinematic collage about people caught between two worlds. An empathetic look at a physical journey and the melodramas of a journey that is spiritual. Nikita Pavlov emigrated from Russia to Israel because he always wanted to experience life in another country. Street protests, political activism, and his daughters first steps are captured without any chronological context, separated only by Pavlovs thoughts and ideas. A cinematic diary that attempts to piece together a hypothetical picture of the filmmakers future.
When New Year Comes on Shabbat

Insatiable lust reigned over senseless flesh. Like august flies, trying to escape certain death, people before the apocalypse started to copulate, until every single one was completely exhausted. Only two people remained untouched. Having merged, like Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, in music that gave them eternal life, they wander timeless, empty spaces. Their destiny - to save humanity. But humanity means nothing to them. Main characters of the movie, Kirill Shirokov and Sasha Elina, are real musicians and founders of 'the same' ensemble, specialized in performing quite music related to certain space and time. During the film they perform music from ‘every day melodies’ series composed by Kirill Shirokov. The movie is the first part of mini-series discovering the territory of contemporary art music.
Tomorrow will be the same

How is it possible to feel someone elses pain? The hero of this film is an autistic boy. His life is divided between an apartment with peeling walls on the outskirts of a large city, and a mental hospital. Anton comes into the frame when he is on the point of becoming a patient at a residential neuropsychiatric institution, a place where people with the sort of diagnosis that he has do not live long. The author, the camera, the hero. The distance between them shrinks with every passing minute, and the author has to enter the shot and become a character in the story. However, it is not a story about how one person helped another, but about how one person recognized herself in another. About how there is Another who lives in each of us and must be destroyed every day inside of us in order to survive.
Anton's Right Here

In a small village somewhere on Anatolian plateau lives old former engineer with his daughter and wife`s ghost. He dreams about space and wants to reconstruct minarets into spaceships, for resurrected ancestors to conquer distant stellar worlds. He is supposed crazy by former colleagues and village people, but loved for his kindness and wisdom. Due to his weak health and illness young daughter puts all her power into keeping house and searching for cure. She shares all her young soul love between father and theatre. Once she meets a woman on a side of a road and takes her home. This changes the life order in the family. Meanwhile a russian theatre director suspected in murder of his wife travels through Turkey in the search for inspiration. All people he meets, dies mysteriously. There is destiny for them to meet. Film is made mixing documentary and staged approach with most actors – unprofessional locals.
Çiçek

The movie is based on Vladimir Mayakovsky’s script that was never filmed. The protagonist is a young Marxist artist leading a bohemian life. At a party he dies of an overdoes and is placed in a cryoreservoir. After 20 years he is transported to the Institute of Man and a decision is taken to resurrect him. But will the protagonist find a place for himself in a new ideal world?