Timur Bekmambetov
Producer, Director, Writer, Actor
June 25, 1961 (65 years)
Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing Night Watch and Wanted, as well as pioneering the modern screenlife format. Through films including Unfriended, Searching, Profile, and Missing, Bekmambetov helped establish screenlife storytelling as a major evolution of found footage and digital-era horror. His work popularized films told entirely through computer screens, video calls, and mobile devices, influencing a new generation of internet-native thriller and horror filmmaking.
Known For
Featured Videos
Filmography
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| 2024 | CTRL · as Executive Producer |
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| 2023 | Missing · as Executive Producer |
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| 2020 | Current Sea · as Executive Producer |
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| 2019 | Snow Queen: Gerda and the Keepers of Wonders · as Executive Producer |
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| 2016 | Before Love · as Executive Producer |
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| 2015 | I Am DragonOn Plex |
| 2015 | Hardcore HenryOn Plex |
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| 2012 | The Snow QueenOn Plex |
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| 2011 | Apollo 18On Plex |
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| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga · as Executive ProducerOn Plex |
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Hodja Nasreddin · as Screenplay |
| 2021 | Radio Dolin · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2017 | vDud · as Self - Guest |
| 2016 | The Artist's Adventures · as Self |
| 2012 | Urgant Show · as Self |
| 2007 | Up Close with Carrie Keagan · as Self |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ · as Self |
| 2002 | Last Call with Carson Daly · as Self |
| 2018 | Dnyukha! · as Production Director |
| 2017 | Yolki novye · as General Manager |
| 2015 | Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll · as General Manager |