Where Is the Friend's House? (1987) [The Criterion Collection]

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Khodabakhsh Defaei

The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing Koker Trilogy takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility. Sensitive and profound, Where Is the Friend’s House? is shot through with all the beauty, tension, and wonder a single day can contain.



The Koker Trilogy:
1. Where Is the Friend's House?
2. And Life Goes on (1992)
3. Through the Olive Trees (1994)

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