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

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)

Trailer

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