Director: Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Emma De Swaef
One crumbling house, three unrelated eras, and a single rule that holds across all of them: whoever lives inside never quite gets to leave on their own terms.
What is The House about?
Built from three separate stories set inside the same address at different points in time, the film follows a struggling family drawn into a bargain with an architect who offers them a grand new home at a cost they don't fully understand, a property developer trying to renovate and sell the same house decades later while dealing with tenants who refuse to be evicted, and finally a landlord searching for tenants worth keeping as the building and the world around it seem to be slowly flooding. Each segment stands on its own, told in a different visual register and tone, from unsettling to darkly comic, but all three return to the same idea: a house that reshapes the lives of whoever moves in, whether they invited that change or not. The connective thread is less plot than atmosphere, carried across chapters instead of characters.
Cast & crew
The voice cast spans the anthology's three chapters, including Matthew Goode, Helena Bonham Carter, Claudie Blakley, Paul Kaye, Miranda Richardson, Mia Goth, Will Sharpe and Susan Wokoma, each attached to a different family or figure tied to the house across its shifting timelines. No single performer carries the whole film, since each segment introduces its own set of residents.
Context & significance
Directed collectively by Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr and Emma De Swaef, and running 120 minutes, this British production is structured as a triptych rather than a single continuous story, a format that lets each director bring a distinct tone to their chapter while the house itself acts as the unifying character. The 2024 release sits alongside a small run of anthology dramas that use one location across time as a way of exploring change, loss and the cost of holding onto a place.
Where & how to watch
The House is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, and this page can be read without signing in. The film comes with a Persian dub, giving Farsi-speaking viewers access to all three chapters in their own language, part of K-Time's broader catalog for the Iranian diaspora abroad.