Sofia Silkina studied at the theater school of Kazan, after which she worked as an actress. During her high school years, she arranged a hooligan painting exhibition titled “Passions for the unified state exam”. To her disappointment, this exam was not canceled after. In 2016, she took a filmmaking course at the Moscow Film School. During this time, she made her first film. In 2019, she entered the Directing Department at Moscow Film School, but due to personal matters decided to postpone her studies. Now she is filming a movie, raising her daughter, and participating in exhibitions as part of the art group Stremnizm, which she founded in 2014.