Timur Bekmambetov

Known for

Production

Born

Jun 25, 1961

From

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.

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Evening Urgant

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Projectorparishilton

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The Artist's Adventures

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The School for Scandal

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The Artist's Adventures

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2000s

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Nineties

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Night Watch

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Day Watch

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Black Lightning

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Wanted

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The Irony of Fate: Continuation

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Fool's Day

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#Blue_Whale

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Peshawar Waltz

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#FBF

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Apollo 18

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