Around the Pink House

Two families on the run find a home but have a hard time keeping it in this comedy-drama. The Adaimis and the Nawfals, two families from the Lebanese countryside, make their way to Beirut as war begins tearing their village apart. The families find an abandoned mansion on the edge of town and move in, eventually making the old house into a home. But after 11 years, with the war over and the national economy on the upswing, the owners of the house finally decide to do something about their squatters. It seems that developers want to open a shopping mall in the area, and the pink house is soon to be demolished, but it quickly becomes obvious that the Adaimi and Nawfal families aren't about to give up their home without a fight. Autour de la Maison Rose was written and directed by the team of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige; it was their first feature film.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide