From 1992 to 2004 he worked at the Simferopol State Crimean Tatar Theater, where he directed several plays including works of Alexander Pushkin. In 2005 he began working at the Kyiv Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy on the left-bank of Dnieper. In 2009 he directed his first film, "Quartet for Two." In 2013 he directed the movie "Haytarma" (English: Return) based on the real life of Amet-khan Sultan, a Crimean Tatar flying ace and twice Hero of the Soviet Union who witnessed the Sürgün but managed to avoid deportation due to his father's Lak ancestry and the intervention of Timofey Khryukin, commander of the 8th Air Army. The film was praised by the "Kyiv Post" as "must-see for history enthusiasts" and criticized by "Komsomolskaya Pravda" for depicting the NKVD officers doing the deportation as violent while portraying the deported women and children in a much more sympathetic light.