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Where Is the Friend’s House?
(Khaneh-ye Dust Kojast)

Screening on Film
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
With Babek Ahmadpoor, Ahmad Ahmadpoor.
Iran, 1987, 35mm, color, 80 min.
Farsi with English subtitles.

This is the first work in a trilogy of films that would bring Iranian director Kiarostami to international prominence. Set in a village in northern Iran, Where is the Friend’s House? is the simple yet powerful tale of a young boy who discovers he has accidently taken the notebook of a school friend who lives in a nearby village. Determined to locate his friend, Ahmad bravely journeys to places—both geographical and psychological—he has never ventured before. 

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