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Doc Alliance Award 2023
Filmstill Silent Sun of Russia
Silent Sun of Russia
Sybilla Tuxen
The film follows three young Russian women after the attack on Ukraine. Stay or leave? A haunting look at a generation in today’s Russia and their lives on the go.
Filmstill Silent Sun of Russia

Silent Sun of Russia

Vi er Rusland
Sybilla Tuxen
Doc Alliance Award 2023
Documentary Film
Denmark
2023
71 minutes
Russian,
Georgian,
Spanish,
English
Subtitles: 
English

Alyona, Alik and Katya belong to a generation of young Russian women who demand what they are not allowed. They are part of a global youth that dreams of self-determination and freedom. Sybilla Tuxen followed her protagonists between 2018 and 2022, up to the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when the three young women find themselves in a new reality. Now more than ever, they are rebelling against Putin’s state and have since lived life on the go.

One of them has made it to Georgia, another goes to Spain, while the third stays at home. They keep in touch by smartphone and social media. One hears from their conversations that they, like many others, don’t believe that political engagement can change anything. Their resistance rather consists in leading modern and western lives in which gender, sexuality, pop music and identity issues play important roles. Tuxen’s darkly poetic debut film is set in nocturnal cars, flats and backyards. The transit in which the three find themselves becomes physically tangible. Their stories allow us rare glimpses into an almost invisible side of today’s Russia and the complexity of lived contradiction.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Sybilla Tuxen
Cinematographer
Sybilla Tuxen
Editor
Enis Saraçi
Producer
Rikke Tambo Andersen, Maria Møller Christoffersen
Sound Design
Mathias Dehn Middelhart