A Birthday in Minsk

When rising rapper Oli finally meets his online collaborator Sasha, their weekend of hanging out turns from sweet to painfully awkward to terrifying. An underground live gig, a strange encounter with a goth girl, and finally a literal descent into hell are all captured on grainy VHS tape.

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.

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.

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.

A short documentary by 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...

A found footage documentary about a volatile young filmmaking couple.

Two young men are traveling through countryside on train and on foot. A night of paranoid ramblings and melancholic flashbacks reveals their reasons and underlines the tension.

An ex-couple who write poems experience a curious synchronicity online.

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 lonely man contemplates the trouble of meeting girls in a bar.

The shy Ruslan Romanov and the brash Lev Zaretski, who previously launched a film review outlet in KINOMANTRA and a moviemaking company in CINEMAGIC, now reveal their AI startup FILMTELLIGENCE with ludicrous results. No generative AI was used in the making of this work.

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?

Exiled director Nikita Lavretski (played by Belarusian director Sergey Kolosovski) strives to reunite with his wife across European borders. Reminiscing about the home he had to leave, he wonders whether he is stuck reliving his past forever.

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.

Boy meets poop. Their romance blossoms before drying out.