H O U S E  O F  B L U E

2010 | 84 MINS | Dir. Jamie Lim & Kenta McGrath | COMING SOON



Ran Li, better known to others as Leroy, is a Chinese student who has been living in Australia for six years. Living far from home and family in a neglected, dirty rental house, he seems nevertheless happy with with his life and has a group of close friends who keep him company. In four days however, Leroy will have to leave the country and will never be able to return.


As the clock counts down, Leroy makes endless phone calls to family and friends; organises a going-away party; encounters immigration officials; gets a haircut and a tattoo; procrastinates endlessly; and says goodbye to anyone who knew him in any capacity. He reflects on his time in Australia: the happy times, the bad times, and the mistakes he has made. Through these everyday events, a story of a complex individual in a complex situation slowly emerges.


The filmmakers - Jamie Lim and Kenta McGrath - were given unrestricted access to Leroy's life: his home, his gym, the faces and places of his everyday life. The resulting film is an intimate and subtle observational documentary that captures, without judgment, both the mundane and startling events leading up to Leroy's departure with equal clarity and resonance. What emerges is a picture of a conflicted man who must face up to his own actions; a man who has a small window of time to do and say the things he wants to loved ones he will probably never see again.