Timur Bekmambetov
Production
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
Mercy
2026
9
2009
Wanted
2008
Searching
2018
Persian Lessons
2020
LifeHack
2026
Missing
2023
Hardcore Henry
2015
Ben-Hur
2016
Unfriended
2014
The Darkest Hour
2011
The Snow Queen
2012
The Current War
2018
I Am Dragon
2015
Day Watch
2006
Night Watch
2004
Black Lightning
2009
The Spacewalker
2017
Apollo 18
2011
Before Love
2016
