Where is the Friend's House?

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

1987 / 83min / DCP

The first film in what has been called Kiarostami’s “Koker Trilogy,” named for the village in northern Iran where all of the films comprising it take place, Where is the Friend’s House? focuses on an eight-year-old boy, Ahmad, who, in discovering that he’s accidentally made off with a notebook belonging to a schoolmate living in a neighboring village, defies his elders by embarking on a journey to return the vital object and save his friend from potential expulsion. A hero’s odyssey in miniature, which evinces Kiarostami’s peerless ability to draw extraordinary performances from non-professional actors, his keen insight into child psychology, and his deep affection for rural Iran and its people.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Screen Time at Metrograph