Silent Sun of Russia portrays a generation of young Russians between 2018 and 2022. The film follows three young women, Alika, Alyona and Katya; they are rebels and anarchists and part of a global youth who dream of living a modern life in freedom. A pervasive sense of anxiety and restlessness about the future haunts the lives of the young women. After Russia invades Ukraine, they find themselves in a new reality that requires difficult choices. In their quest for love, friendship, and the dream of escaping Putin's Russia, they live in uncertainty, where longing is replaced by difficult emotions and attempts to repress reality. The film provides an intimate and poetic view of the current living conditions and the urgent decisions faced today by young Russians who cannot see a future in their native country.
Denmark 2023, '71
DIRECTOR: Sybilla Tuxen
SCENARIO: Sybilla Marie Tuxen
CAMERA: Sybilla Marie Tuxen
PRODUCERS: Rikke Tambo Andersen, Maria Møller Christoffersen
PRODUCTION: Tambo Film, Frau Film
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Trieste FF (2023)
Beldocs IDFF (2023)
DokuFest (2023)
Dok Leipzig (2023)
ArtdocFest IDFF (2024)
Sybilla Tuxen
Sybilla Tuxen (1990) graduated as a photographer from Fatamorgana - Denmark's photographic school of visual arts, in 2011 and as a documentary filmmaker from The Danish Film School in 2017. Since 2011, when Sybilla lived and studied Russian in St Petersburg, she has worked on films in former Soviet countries. Sybilla works with polyphonic narratives. Her visual works explore the emotional currents of poetry with a unique eye for human destinies and the worlds of our mythological and literary subconscious.
The short film This Place We Call Our home (2014) from Ukraine was nominated for best short film at the European Film Award 2015. The film depicts the waiting, those left behind, in a visual and musical narrative from Ukraine during the conflict with Russia in 2014. Ksenia Peterburgskaya (2017) brings together four women and the Russian saint Ksenia in a spiritual discussion about hope, powerlessness, madness, and love—Sybilla debuts in 2023 with her first feature-length documentary Silent Sun of Russia.
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