paris lockdown

A breezy story of everyday connections, set during Paris’s first lockdown.

Paris, France, April 2020. Félix, manager of a luxury hotel, decides to start a clandestine business during the first lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The announcement came on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 8 p.m.: all high schools in France would close until further notice due to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus. All students in France are being placed under house arrest for an indefinite period of time.

Paris, February 2021. Five activists converge on a single location, thwarting the rules of the COVID19 pandemic - to what end?

When the French authorities closed their borders, landed their planes, confined their citizens to their homes, spreading the police on the streets. I was in Paris. Without any planning, the memory coming from Palestine began to flow and merge with the diaries I live here, and the virus began to awaken other viruses, which made me spontaneously, as a Palestinian citizen, besieged in the most beautiful Parisian neighbourhood (Montmartre), busy documenting aspects of diaries and memories in a period of time that changed the face of the scientist.

Violent riots and strikes paralyse Paris and rest of France.