Silent Lightnings / Besshumnyye molnii

Credits

Director Oleg Butkovsky
Scriptwriter Oleg Butkovsky
Producer Dilyara Butkovsky
Cinematographer / DP Nikolai Svetovidov
Art director Daria Beloslyudova
Sound Designer Nikita Furmanov
Costume Designer Dilyara Butkovsky

cast

Alena Lipatova
Oleg Butkovsky
Dilyara Butkovsky
Sofya Alexandrova
Platon Savvin
Nerius Mankus
Andrey Lakatash
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Oleg Butkovsky

Director

Biography

Born in 1991 in Germany, raised in Magadan, Russia. In high school, he became interested in photography — shooting staged photos with friends, and after classes, he worked as a brochure designer for a local magazine. During his student years, he worked at a photo studio in St. Petersburg — during the day, he shot clients by appointment, learning to work with light and people, and at night, the studio was entirely his for experiments. He shot portraits of subjects for several magazines, but over time, he stopped shooting and began working in the advertising industry, eventually moving to Moscow. In 2022, he started studying filmmaking, completing courses at the Moscow School of Cinema and "Svobodnoye Kino". Also in 2022, he shot his first short student film about a father and son who get lost in the forest. In 2025, he shot his second short film, "Silent Lightnings", about a journalist in a world where the information noise never stops.