Stay Calm

Stay Calm (2023) is an Italian political comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Davide Dapporto and starring Billy Zane. Giorgio, an Italian-American appointed Minister of Culture, arrives in Rome with a losing campaign and a very bad idea: hire an Instagram influencer and a recently released convict to stage a scandal — a fake affair and a home invasion, engineered to spike his approval ratings.

Nothing goes as planned. Zane plays a man fully convinced that likes outrank votes, and that conviction is where most of the comedy lives. Sharp, messy satire on politics, media manipulation and the gap between what looks good online and what actually works. Stream Stay Calm (2023) on iFILM.