Nikita Lavretski

Elena is a student in Minsk. She is having an intense but self-destructive love affair with Viktor. When Elena's father goes to prison she has to take charge of his business dealings to help him. She drives repeatedly into the restricted zone at Chernobyl, behind the wheel of a truck, in order to smuggle contaminated steel. The conflicts with Viktor escalate, and Elena is increasingly captivated by the zone's deceptive beauty...

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 scruffy man in his mid-forties finds in his mailbox a mysterious envelope with an audio cassette in it. His son's voice can be heard on the tape, telling a terrifying story of his life in the cursed Volynka neighborhood. This is how the father learns that the son has gathered a group to fight against the "possessed".

Coming from the heart of the Belarusian Rebellion, an intimate portrait of a young woman leading a double life. When her regular self enters emotional turmoil amid self-isolation, her seifuku-wearing magical witch alter ego is keeping the fighting spirit ablaze.

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.

Ruslyk, the president's personal film director, tries to save the world while battling mental illness. During his one-day odyssey through the city of Minsk he encounters doctors, politicians, propagandists, artists, drunks and lowlifes.

A complete chronicle of how Idrak Mirzalizade wanted to film a concert, but everything went terribly wrong.

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?

Alexey Suhanok, a Belarusian stand up comedian, lives through the horror of a next-door war by making edgy jokes on the subject. Alas, this self-defence mechanism doesn’t stop him from having a nervous breakdown of his own.

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Igor and Sveta visit Igor's hometown. Igor wants nothing more than to spend the weekend recording a fun vlog with his girlfriend when a talk with his mom uncovers more of a pressing problem in his relationship with Sveta.

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.

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.

Andrey lives in Minsk, Marina lives in Berlin. They used to date. Now, separated by hundreds of kilometers, they spend their days in a state of melancholic uncertainty.

A short documentary by Nikita Lavretski.

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

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.

Egor drops out of the university for the second year in a row and returns to Minsk. Because of such irresponsibility he quarrels with his mother and his girlfriend. Eventually, he is left with no money and no roof over his head. As his 20th birthday approaches, he is overcome with melancholy.

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.

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