- Known For
- Production
- Born
- June 25, 1961
- Place of Birth
- Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Timur Bekmambetov
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
movieLifeHack
2026 · Producer
movieMercy
2026 · Producer, Director
movieWar of the Worlds
2025 · Producer
movieSix Till Midnight
2025 · Producer
movieBloat
2025 · Producer
movieCTRL
2024 · Executive Producer
movie#Blue_Whale
2024 · Producer
movieLong D
2023 · Producer
movieResurrected
2023 · Producer
movieMissing
2023 · Executive Producer
tv2000s
2022
movie#FBF
2022 · Producer
movieV2. Escape from Hell
2021 · Director, Producer
movieR♥️J
2021 · Producer
tvNineties
2021
Like in Venice
movieLike in Venice
2020 · Director, Screenplay
tvLocked Up
2020 · Producer
moviePersian Lessons
2020 · Producer
movieGambler
2020 · Producer
movieCurrent Sea
2020 · Executive Producer
Heroic Deed
movieHeroic Deed
2019 · Producer
movieThe Last Six Degrees of Celebration
2018 · Producer, Director
movieAlice AI
2018 · Producer
movieSearching
2018 · Producer
movieB-Day!
2018 · Production Director
movieUnfriended: Dark Web
2018 · Producer
movieRezo
2018 · Producer
movieTweet-Tweet
2018 · Producer
movieProfile
2018 · Producer, Director, Writer
movieThe Current War
2018 · Producer
movieUnfollowed
2018 · Producer
movieSix Degrees of Celebration 6
2017 · General Manager
movieThe Spacewalker
2017 · Producer
movieSix Degrees of Celebration 5
2016 · Producer, Director
movieThe Artist's Adventures
2016 · Self
tvThe Artist's Adventures
2016 · Self
movieHacking Bloggers
2016 · Producer
movieBen-Hur
2016 · Director
movieBefore Love
2016 · Executive Producer
movieThe Best Day Ever
2015 · Producer
movieI Am Dragon
2015 · Producer
movieHardcore Henry
2015 · Producer
movieDouble Trouble
2015 · Producer
moviePaws, Bones & Rock'n'roll
2015 · General Manager
movieSquirrels
2014 · Producer
movieSix Degrees of Celebration 1914
2014 · Director, Producer
movieFool's Day
2014 · Producer
movieBitterly! 2
2014 · Producer
movieUnfriended
2014 · Producer
movieSix Degrees of Celebration 3
2013 · Producer
movieBitterly!
2013 · Producer
movieThe Game of Truth
2013 · Producer
movieGentlemen, Good Luck!
2012 · Producer
movieThe Snow Queen
2012 · Producer
movieAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · Director, Producer
tvEvening Urgant
2012 · Self
movieThe Darkest Hour
2011 · Producer
movieKikoriki: Team Invincible
2011 · Producer
movieSix Degrees of Celebration 2
2011 · Producer, Writer
movieApollo 18
2011 · Producer
movieLucky Trouble
2011 · Producer
movieSix Degrees of Celebration
2010 · Director, Producer
movieHappy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010 · Executive Producer
movieBlack Lightning
2009 · Producer
movie9
2009 · Producer
movieWanted
2008 · Director
tvProjectorparishilton
2008
movieThe Irony of Fate: Continuation
2007 · Director, Writer, Producer
tvThe Gromovs
2006 · Producer
movieDay Watch
2006 · Director, Writer
movieNight Watch
2004 · Director, Writer
tvThe School for Scandal
2002
movieGAZ. Russian Cars
2002 · Director
movieThe Arena
2001 · Director
moviePeshawar Waltz
1994 · Director, Writer
movieBefore the Big Road to War
1987 · Production Design
Petersburg Carousel
moviePetersburg Carousel
— · Director
movieHodja Nasreddin
— · Director, Screenplay
Blind Love
movieBlind Love
— · Producer
Потерянный и возвращенный мир
movieПотерянный и возвращенный мир
— · Director, Producer
Он - дракон 2
movieОн - дракон 2
— · Producer
Substitution
movieSubstitution
— · Producer
Погребённый
movieПогребённый
— · Director
Liked
movieLiked
— · Producer
ANSWR
movieANSWR
— · Producer
Don't Get Up!
movieDon't Get Up!
— · Producer