Where is the Friend's Home? (1987)
- Original title
- خانهی دوست کجاست؟
- Directed by
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country
- Iran
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 434 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young boy makes a journey to a neighboring village to return a friend's school notebook. He wants to stop the friend from being expelled the next day.
earnestslow-pacedcontemplativegentlewarmsubtleobservationalpoetic
What happens
Where Is the Friend's House? (Persian: خانه دوست کجاست, romanized: Khāne-ye dust kojāst), also known as Where Is the Friend's Home?, is a 1987 Iranian drama film written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami. The plot depicts a conscientious schoolboy's attempt to return his friend's school notebook to his home in a neighboring village, to prevent the friend from being expelled if he fails to hand it in the next day. The film, whose title derives from a poem by Sohrab Sepehri, is the first installment in Kiarostami's Koker trilogy, followed by And Life Goes On and Through the Olive Trees, all of which take place in Koker, Iran. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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