RESTI UMANI

DIRECTED BY LORENZO GONNELLI

THRILLER | EXPERIMENTAL

Italy

18′

2026

SYNOPSIS
Grosseto, early 1990s. In an abandoned quarry, Sami, a young Albanian boy, lives in isolation with Massimo, who looks after him. During the night, the arrival of a man with a kidnapped child transforms the quarry into a suspended, indecipherable space, in which Sami is left alone.
DIRECTED BY LORENZO GONNELLI PRODUCED BY Federico Fasulo (Eclettica) Francesco Bruschettini (Kahuna Film) Andrea Rapallini (Sentiero Film ETS) WRITTEN BY LORENZO GONNELLI WITH Braian Xeka, Stefano “Steno” Cimato, Salvatore Pulzella, Enea Bruschettini DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Emilio Maria Costa EDITOR Andrea Sbarbaro SET DESIGNER Luciano Mancini
 COSTUME DESIGNER Giulia Di Renzo VFX ARTIST LORENZO GONNELLI GRAPHIC Carlo Salini MAKE UP & HAIR Sara Ben Dekhil Diana Valteroni SOUND DESIGN Nico Palermo

AWARDS AND SELECTIONS

24. Alice Nella Città
WORLD PREMIERE
2026

LORENZO GONNELLI

BIO

 

Lorenzo Gonnelli is an Italian director and photographer. In 2023, his screenplay Catene was selected for the ShorTS Development & Pitching Training, the Figari Film Festival and the Omladinski Film Festival, and also won the Sentiero Film Lab Award. In 2024, he directed the short film Animali Senza Dio. At the same time, he is pursuing a photographic research project on landscape and memory. In 2025, he presented the Acciaio project at Ma.Co.f, the MArteLive Biennale and the Liquida Photo Festival, where he received the Fiuto Art Space Award. In 2026, under the guidance of Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni for Yogurt Magazine, he developed the project Fuochi Fatui. In the same year, he took part in Michelangelo Frammartino’s directing workshop in Naples. Resti Umani is his latest short film.
2026
RESTI UMANI (THRILLER | EXPERIMENTAL, 18', IT)
2024
ANIMALI SENZA DIO (Drama , 7', IT)