Nikita Lavretski was born in 1994 in Minsk. In 2015, his debut feature film “Belarusian Psycho” became the best film of the National Competition of the Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad”. In 2019, his film \"Sasha's Hell\" was included in one of the programs of the Moscow International Film Festival. Since 2018, he has been studying film science at the graduate school of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.