[1] After graduating from VKSR (Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors) Bobrova started making films in 1991.
Her directorial debut Oi, vy, gusi (Hey, You Geese, 1991), depicted the life of three brothers struggling a world that has forgotten them.
Lydia Bobrova 2006) based on three short stories by Vasilii Shukshin adapted for a more modern period.
Bobrova created a filmography based around glubinka, Russian rural peasant life which she grew up in.
[1][3] Bobrova, took realism to a high degree even using non-professional actors even in critical roles, such as the titular grandmother in Babusyia.
The struggling matriarch in Babuysia for one, in other films Bobrova has reversed traditional gender norms, depicting women doing tasks of physical labour or men doing domestic work.