A film by Leonardo Silvestri
Solo Sfiga.
An aspiring filmmaker with no industry connections tries to write the film that will save him — and finds himself trapped inside it, while his real life collapses around him.
Italy · 2026 · 77 min · Comedy / Drama
· Directed by Leonardo Silvestri
Official trailer
Full screener available upon request — productionsilvestri@gmail.com
Short synopsis
Claudio is thirty years old and wants to be a film director. In an industry where success depends on who you know rather than what you can do, he has been knocking on doors for years with no result. While his girlfriend Virginia pushes him toward a stable job, Claudio refuses to give up and starts writing the only film he can truly make: one about himself making a film. As the boundary between what he lives and what he writes slowly dissolves, Solo Sfiga becomes a comedy about the stubbornness of dreaming when the system has already decided you don't belong.
Technical sheet
- Title
- Solo Sfiga
- Director
- Leonardo Silvestri
- Country
- Italy
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 77 minutes
- Genre
- Comedy / Drama
- Language
- Italian
- Production
- Silvestri Production S.R.L.
- Rights available
- SVOD · VOD · Theatrical
Cast
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Recognizable faces on social, verified as of May 28, 2026.
Leonardo Silvestri
Claudio
@sonoleonardosilvestri
38,300 followers
Greta Salvati
Irene · screenplay
@gretasalvati
Jessica Amendola
Virginia
@jessicaamendola
151,000 followers
Roberta Molisso
@robertamolisso
30,000 followers
Serena Pistilli
@_serenaesse_
24,200 followers
Marco Vincis
@marcovincis
1,789 followers
Marco Luca Vulcano
1,556 followers
Director's statement
Solo Sfiga was born from that necessary coincidence between life and cinema. It was a survival decision.
I spent four years knocking on the right doors. Producers, distributors, meetings that looked like turning points and then dissolved. I didn't give up — I did what a director does when he has nothing left: I wrote about what was actually happening.
Metacinema not as an intellectual citation, but as the only honest way to tell what making cinema means today, in Italy, without saints in heaven.
— Leonardo Silvestri
Crew
- Director
- Leonardo Silvestri
- Screenplay
- Leonardo Silvestri, Greta Salvati
- Director of Photography
- Alessandro Pittoni
- Sound
- Alessio Corda
- Production design & costumes
- Elena Gennarelli
- Hair & Make-up
- Alice Panzironi
- Assistant Director
- Iris Di Rienzo
- Assistant Director & co-writer
- Greta Salvati
- Editor
- Greta Rogani
- Assistant Editor
- Cincia Curci
- Original Score
- Simone Brunori 'SGHINCIO'
The Director
Leonardo Silvestri.
Rome, 1994. Director, screenwriter, actor and producer. He trained at the Teatro dell'Orologio in Rome, where he developed his first project during the COVID lockdown. He won the Audience Award at the 48-Hour Film Project with Tempo al Tempo, and in 2021 founded Silvestri Production.
Debut feature — Exuvia (2022)
Theatrical release in Italian cinemas, December 2nd 2022. Currently available on Amazon Prime Video Italy. Best First Feature Director at Solaris (Nice) 2022.
Selected filmography
- 2026Solo Sfiga — Feature
- 2025Candy Bullet
- 2023Mariina ADV
- 2022Exuvia — Feature (theatrical)
- 2021Tempo al Tempo · Roma vista dai miei occhi
- 2020La Boutique del Gelato
Television: Are You The One? Italia (2023).
Reference cinema
Three traditions, one comedy.
Adaptation
Charlie Kaufman · 2002
American metacinema — fiction devouring reality
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Mario Monicelli · 1958
Italian comedy — lightness as a vehicle for weight
L'Avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni · 1960
European cinema — emptiness as narrative substance
Stills
Press Kit
Materials for press.
Full pitch deck (113 pp) and screener available upon request.
For distributors
Let's talk.
SVOD, VOD and Theatrical rights available for all territories. Submitted to Venice 80 — Orizzonti and Giornate degli Autori.
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