Nikitiuk also directed Lucky Girl (2021), and published a collection of short fiction, The Abyss (2016), which won the Oles Ulianenko International Literary Prize.

[8] Set in the small Ukrainian city of Lozova, the film centers on a five-year-old girl, Vitka, and her older cousin, Larysa, who is in love with a criminal.

"[19] Nikitiuk notes Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now as among her favorite films, chosen for their capacity to absorb the viewer from start to finish.

[20] Nikitiuk was a co-writer for director Nariman Aliev's Homeward,[21] which was shown in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

[30] As of 2021, Nikitiuk was developing an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, to be told from the perspective of a Ukrainian teenaged girl.

[31] At the 2022 Sarajevo Film Festival, Nikitiuk won funding for a project called Cherry Blossoms, about Ukrainian refugees.