Sébastien Gafari & Sara Guedes

Palazzo
Palazzo is a tale.
We follow two travellers stopping off at a derelict building. We don’t know where they’ve come from or where they’re going. This stone palazzo, gutted and abandoned, by the sea, has been re-enchanted for a day by people passing through. Fugitive owners, these inhabitants imagine themselves Princes for a night. A dream, a godsend, a fragrant breath.
Abandoned palaces echo with tales of ancient treasures, igniting our imaginations. But here, it’s a heartbreaking story that we want to tell between the lines of this tale, because the history of the Mediterranean and that of Italy are intimately linked to the often tragic story of hundreds of thousands of migrants torn from their countries and their heritage.
Sébastien Gafari is the child of Lebanese immigrants. His family left Beirut to escape the civil war; in their suitcases were recipes and words of Arabic that Sébastien would never learn. This is where we live.
Sara Guédès grew up in a scattered, disjointed family. For her, the house has become a way of weaving a thread, a link. This living room is home to two uprooted people; friends, they walk together. We don’t know where they’ve come from or where they’re going.