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Around the Pink House (NY Premiere)
Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas - Lebanon - 1999 - 92m - 35mm - drama
In Arabic with English subtitles
With humor and compassion, AROUND THE PINK HOUSE delivers a slice-of-life look at contemporary Lebanon. Two families, the Adaimi's and the Nawfal's, had illegally settled and made their home in an abandoned pink house at the onset of their country's civil war twenty years ago. The house was originally built by a wealthy businessman in the Matba'a district to show off his riches. However, now Lebanon is going through an economic boom, and the old shelled out buildings are being torn down to make way for a large reconstruction program. Mattar, the new owner of the pink house, arrives with unhappy news for the Adaimi's and Nawfail's; he wants to gut the pink house to build a shopping center. Mattar gives the families ten days to move out. This event divides the district and little by little two groups form. On the one side, those who favor reconstruction and the economic boom, and on the other, the two families and their friends. The house is a distorting mirror of the current reality, where each person finds his memories or loses them when facing the ruins of the pink house.
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