Synopsis:
Jean Kaneko, swept away by the tsunami of the catastrophic financial meltdown, quits her coveted job as an investment banker on Wall Street. After a soul-searching journey traveling around the world, she returns home to Vancouver, but is still floating in limbo. Instead of settling down, she temporarily moves into an empty home owned by a family friend. To her surprise, she discovers she's not the only occupant in the house. A cynical college professor, his bitter sister, her devoted husband, a disgruntled cab driver and a washed-up drifter are all squatting. They are not supposed to be there because they're actually dead. As Jean confronts these souls as tormented as herself, they inevitably end up in an entangled mass of secrets and lies.

This imaginative drama roams in and out of the lives of lost souls, weaving reality with the other side. A ghost story that meditates on the precious gems along with the missed opportunities in this precarious thing we know as life.

Festivals:
Vancouver Women In Film Festival: Winner - Best Screenwriting and Best Performance Awards (2012)
Vancouver Asian Film Festival (2011)

Reviews:
"Lim is poised to defy a new set of genre norms with The House: a ghost story that blends personal drama with pointed anti-Wall Street sentiment." Vancouver Sun

"The House is a film of great complexity. Tackling different issues with a profusion of references (none of them excessive), Desiree Lim offers us an intriguing narrative that's impossible to not touch our sensibilities, since they are based on the confrontation of two human experiences that can't be avoided in our existences—the one of being sheltered and the one of dying." Schema Magazine

Cast:
Natalie Skye (Floored by Love)
Zak Santiago (Perfect Sisters / Maximum Conviction)
Alex Zahara (Four Saints / Marley & Me: The Puppy Years)
Emile Ullerup (Battlestar Galactica / Supernatural / Hunt to Kill)
Zahf Paroo (Firewall / The Big Year / Scooby Doo 2)
David Richmond-Peck (Paradox / Smokin' Aces 2)
Olivia Cheng (Broken Trail / The Art of War II / High Noon)

Crew:
Written, Produced & Directed by Desiree Lim
Executive Producers: Desiree Lim, Jessica Matten & Natalie Skye
Director of Photography: Thomas Billingsley
Editor: Eliot Piltz
Composer: Brent Belke

Drama | HD | 109 minutes | 2011 | Canada