Nikita Lavretski
Biography
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”.
Known For
COOL (News from Belarus)
The Other Side
Cinemagic
A Date in Minsk
Nikita Lavretski
Alexey Suhanok: Stand-Up In the Swamp
Sad Music
Poetry
All Movies (27)
- Self-Portrait at Thirty2026 · as Himself
- Idrak Mirzalizade: This Never Happened2025 · as Self
- The Other Side2024 · as The Recidivist #1 / Voice of the Possessed (voice)
- The Tiniest Castle of the Nation Found (and for Sale!)2023
- COOL (News from Belarus)2023 · as Leonid Boulianov (segment "Nano")
- The Murder on Alibegova Street2022 · as Nikita
- A Date in Minsk2022 · as Nikita
- The Bear's Lair2022
- Alexey Suhanok: Stand-Up In the Swamp2021 · as Self (Entertainer)
- The Release2021 · as Self
- Lyosha Lyashenko: Idrak's Underpants2021 · as Self (entertainer)
- Movie Talks & Quiz2020 · as Movie Expert
- Nikita Lavretski2019 · as Himself
- Drama2019 · as Nikita
- Two Angry Men Walking Over a Bridge2017 · as Himself
- Sad Music2017 · as Himself (voice)
- Cinemagic2017 · as Lev Zaretski
- A Few Scenes with My Girlfriend Olechka Kavaliova2016 · as Himself
- Belarusian Psycho2015 · as Dmitry
- Amerykan Boy2015 · as Maksim
- Pochemu zakrylas Galereya 12?2015 · as Himself (voice)
- Poetry2015 · as The Stranger
- Getting Caught by the Rain2014 · as Himself
- Every Day Love2014
- TO RUTH:2012
- Magicians of Belarus2012 · as Himself
- Neil in Love2011