Michael Borodin was born in Toytepa, a small town near Tashkent. He made his first film at the age of eighteen. In 2010, after graduating from the university, he moved to Moscow to study filmmaking where at first, he led the life of an illegal immigrant. He worked as a delivery guy and an odd-job worker, then had a chance to pursue his passion for movies by enrolling into the film school of Alexander Mitta.

In 2017 Borodin made a short fiction film on the annexation of Crimea. In 2018 his short Normal was a part of La Semaine de la Critique. Borodin works and lives in Uzbekistan and Russia, making films on pressing social issues.