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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's invasion in 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.

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.