Time Out Beirut Cineclub – ‘Around the Pink House’

Time Out Beirut and Save Beirut Heritage have the great pleasure of inviting you to a screening of Joana Hadji Thomas and Khalil Joreige’s 1999 feature film ‘Autour de la Maison Rose’ (Around the Pink House)

The Cineclub
Every month, Time Out Beirut and Save Beirut Heritage invite you to enjoy films on the theme of Beirut’s heritage, screened in traditional buildings so we can see them and reflect on their past and future.

Synopsis
During the civil war, the Nawfal family fled their village and made their home in an abandoned pink mansion in Beirut, full of beauty and intrigue. After more than a decade, they receive a visit from the man who has inherited the house; they have ten days to find a new home so that he can turn it into a commercial center. As the neighborhood discusses the problem, tensions emerge between the love of the old and the demands and advantages of the new.

Special Formula:TOB and SBH are thrilled to be working with Fair Trade Lebanon to provide snacks and drinks for all cineclub-goers. Come ready to enjoy their selection of delicious grilled wheat for nibbling (from a cooperative in Rachaya – Bekaa), molasses biscuits made by the same cooperative, refreshing mulberry, rose and bitter orange syrups, and jams.