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The House Is Black is a 1963 Iranian documentary short film directed by Forugh Farrokhzad.

The film is a look at life and suffering in a leper colony and focuses on the human condition and the beauty of creation. It is spliced with Farrokhzad's narration of quotes from the Old Testament, the Koran and her own poetry. The film features footage from the Bababaghi Hospice leper colony. It was the only film she directed before her death in 1967. After shooting this film she adopted a child from the colony.

Although the film attracted little attention outside Iran when released, it has since been recognized as a landmark in Iranian film. Reviewer Eric Henderson described the film as "[o]ne of the prototypal essay films, The House Is Black paved the way for the Iranian New Wave." In 1963, the film was awarded the grand prize for the category documentary at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in West Germany.

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The House Is Black has since been regarded as one of the best documentary films ever made. In the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll, The House Is Black was ranked the 235th greatest film ever made. It received seven votes from critics, making it one of nine documentary films to be included in the list. The BFI also ranked it as the 19th best documentary of all time in a 2014 poll.

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