Roman Shumunov (Hebrew: רומן שומונוב; born 1984) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter.
In 1993, after the war in Abkhazia, his family moved to Russia.
In 2001 he immigrated to Israel at the age of 17 as part of the students' preparation program Selah mir (Russian: СЭЛА МИР, Hebrew: סל"ה מיר)[1] and was trained at the University of Tel-Aviv.
In a number of his films Shumunow attempts to raise the awareness of the life of young immigrants to Israel.
[2][3] In his interview to a Russophone TV program "Day" of Channel 9 Shumunov says that the three films, No One But Us, Babylon Dreamers, and Here and Now are a kind of a trilogy, an evolution of the same idea.