Mikhail Borodin

Directing • 1987-03-14 • Tashkent, USSR (Uzbekistan)

Born near Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1987, he began making films when he was 18. In 2020, he moved to Moscow where, living as a migrant worker, he found work as a delivery guy and an odd-job man before finally having the chance to enrol in a film school there. After graduating, he went on to produce and direct commercials and music videos and founded his own production company, Sneg. His short film Normal screened in the Semaine de la Critique at Cannes.