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Ivan Sosnin

Ivan Sosnin

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Biography

Ivan Sosnin (Russian: Иван Соснин; born 12 November, 1990; Kirovgrad, Sverdlovsk) is a Russian director and screenwriter. He is a chief director of the Red Pepper Film company. Born in 1990 in Kirovgrad, Sverdlovsk region. From the 7th grade to the age of 18 he lived in Nevyansk (Sverdlovsk region). He studied at the Metallurgical Faculty of USTU-UPI (now Ural Federal University). Since his student years, he started working in an advertising agency, where he shot commercials and music videos. His films have been awarded at international festivals (Sapporo Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, FilmFestival Cottbus, Golden Unicorn, etc.), and in 2019 the short film "Interview" received a diploma of the Guild of Film Critics and Critics at Kinotavr and in 2020 became the winner of the Golden Eagle Award (film award). In 2021, the full-length almanac Ivan's Happiness (2020) was released, in which Fyodor Dobronravov, Alexey Serebryakov, Julia Aug, Kirill Kyaro, Anton Adasinsky and others participated. in 2022, His debut feature film Distant Close (2022) was released.

Known For

Yug
8.8

Yug Kipen is a tight—lipped, modest boy raised by his grandmother. Yug's mother died when he was three years old, and he never saw his father. Everything changes when, on his 14th birthday, Yug discovers the money his father sent in his grandmother's closet. From this moment begins the story of the great journey of the South in search of his father. Potential fathers are scattered all over Russia. The South will have to cross the whole country to meet everyone. He will visit the most beautiful corners of our country, and of course, he will see the main attraction of Russia — people! It is not easy for a 14-year-old teenager to make such a journey, in principle, and even more difficult for the South, because he has a bunch of phobias that he will have to overcome every time.

Yug

2024Series
Like Father, Like Son
5.6

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.

Like Father, Like Son

2022Movie