The House Is Black (Persian: خانه سیاه است) is an acclaimed Iranian documentary short film directed by Forough 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. During shooting, she became attached to, and later adopted, a child whose parents had leprosy.