Timur Bekmambetov
Production
Born June 25, 1961 in Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
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.
Filmography
Hodja Nasreddin
LifeHack
Mercy
War of the Worlds
Six Till Midnight
Bloat
CTRL
#Blue_Whale
Long D
Resurrected
Missing
2000s
#FBF
V2. Escape from Hell
R♥️J
Nineties
Locked Up
Persian Lessons
Gambler
Current Sea
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
Alice AI
Searching
B-Day!
Unfriended: Dark Web
Rezo
Tweet-Tweet
Profile
The Current War
Unfollowed
Six Degrees of Celebration 6
The Spacewalker
Six Degrees of Celebration 5
The Artist's Adventures
Self
The Artist's Adventures
Self
Hacking Bloggers
Ben-Hur
Before Love
The Best Day Ever
I Am Dragon
Hardcore Henry
Double Trouble
Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
Squirrels
Six Degrees of Celebration 1914
Fool's Day
Bitterly! 2
Unfriended
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
Bitterly!
The Game of Truth
Gentlemen, Good Luck!
The Snow Queen
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Evening Urgant
Self
The Darkest Hour
Kikoriki: Team Invincible
Six Degrees of Celebration 2
Apollo 18
Lucky Trouble
Six Degrees of Celebration
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Black Lightning
9
Wanted
Projectorparishilton
The Irony of Fate: Continuation
The Gromovs
Day Watch
Night Watch
The School for Scandal
GAZ. Russian Cars
The Arena
Peshawar Waltz
Before the Big Road to War