Ivan Solomatin

Movies

Distant Loved Ones
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Boris works as a geography teacher in an ordinary Khabarovsk school. His life is pretty routine. In addition to the school and the garden, Boris has a son, Misha, with whom they have been communicating less and less lately and have become distant people for each other. Everything changes when Misha gives his father his old smartphone for his birthday. Boris begins to understand the phone and registers in social networks. Accidentally, Boris adds one unfamiliar woman named Nadezhda as a friend. An active correspondence is tied up, which subsequently becomes fateful. At one point, Boris decides to go to Nadezhda in the Moscow region to surprise her. He persuades his son, who is engaged in hauling cars, to take him with him on a trip. During a joint trip through all of Russia, old conflicts between father and son are revealed, the reasons for their separation from each other are clarified.
Weightlessness
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Sasha is an ordinary boy whose life is not much different from the everyday life of an average schoolboy. Sasha's parents are divorced, so they put their personal ambitions above the interests of their son. From lack of attention, Sasha begins to withdraw into himself. Everything changes when, after school, Sasha meets a new friend – a strange cleaner in a pilot's jumpsuit.
Иваново счастье. Новые истории
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Ink Sea
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A young sailor Sasha travels the world and sends letters to his father from every city where the ship stops. But all his letters remain unanswered for many years. Since childhood, Sasha has not seen his father, he does not have his phone, only the postal address has been preserved. For him, one-way letters have already become a ritual. But one day, returning home from a voyage, a sailor finds a reply letter in his mailbox.
Trigger
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Ksenia had a painful experience in her past. In the present, she leads a lonely life. She makes ASMR videos for a popular YouTube channel. One of her regular viewers, Philip, invites her to meet in person. For him, ASMR is a fetish; but, for her, it turns into something more.
Quarantine
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"Quarantine" is a story about chief accountant Irina, who, during a pandemic, goes to the office to transfer salaries to the company's employees. But a paranoid guard Boris will stand in her way, protecting the office not only from robbers, but also from the virus.
Mother's Portrait
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The story of the teacher Lisa, who was in a family of children named Vanya, without parents, because he got into the group from the orphanage according to a special program. The new year is approaching, and Lisa decides to help Vanya take part in the New Year's party.
Ecology Lesson
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How often do we think about ecology, about the environment, about health, about our life and the life of future generations? A new film from the brand "Uncle Vanya" - "Ecology Lesson" - calls to stop and think about what concerns each of us.
Ivan's Happiness
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Reflections of the shift worker Ivan, who, due to life circumstances, overcomes more than 9000 km to return home. On his way he meets many interesting people: military, students, mothers with children, men, women, old people. The landscapes outside the window, time zones, people are changing. But their stories remain, stories about life, love, hope and faith.
Love
Director of Photography
An accountant named Lyubov conducts business correspondence with an employee of the company living at the northern meteorological station. In the course of communication, the heroes become sympathetic to each other, but soon the cyclone that hit the meteorological station breaks the connection. Having received no response to his messages, Love decides to go in search of his colleague.
Moscow-Vladivostok
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A young guy Sasha runs into a second-class car of a long-distance train with a guitar in a case. He, like many other musicians, tried to conquer Moscow, but failed. Sasha settles in a compartment to an adult shift officer Ivan returning home. For a long time on the way, the heroes manage to make friends, write songs, create their own musical group and perform on the platforms in several cities. But what will happen to their group when Ivan leaves at his station?
Mindfulness
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In the center of the story is the main character’s monologue about the anxiety caused by viewing Instagram feeds. There, all the time, someone lives better than her! Her conclusion is both sad and funny: "Every time I am in the opposite place from happiness and in anxiety." Will she find a way out of this state? How will her man, to whom she tells everything, react to this monologue?
The Interview
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“The Interview” tells the story of Sonya, who grew up with her mum. Sonya enrols in the faculty of journalism in Moscow. Once she decides to meet her father, whom never saw, and take an interview with him under the guise of a journalist so she would get answers to the questions that have long troubled her
The Voice of The Sea
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The touching love story of a deaf fisherman and singer from a coastal cafe.
Goodbye, America!
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A young Cuban of Russian origin Ivan returns to his historical homeland and immediately becomes involved in a cycle of events that put him in front of a serious choice.
Crimea Is Ours
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A black comedy rhyming harsh allusions to the "Russian spring" with a private wedding story.
New Russians
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Six various novels united in a one movie.
Chippendale
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Mikhail, an antique shop keeper, stumbles upon a rare Chippendale's drawer in a Tatar by-place. Heaps of snow, bargaining with the rugged locals - nothing but his own greed is going to stop Misha from getting the precious drawer.