Where Is the Friend’s House?
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.
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Homework (1989), a feature-length documentary by director Abbas Kiarostami, newly restored
- Conversation from 2015 between Kiarostami and programmer Peter Scarlet
- New English subtitle translation
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Homework (1989), a feature-length documentary by director Abbas Kiarostami, newly restored
- Conversation from 2015 between Kiarostami and programmer Peter Scarlet
- New English subtitle translation
Cast
- Babak Ahmadpour
- Ahmad
- Ahmad Ahmadpour
- Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh
- Kheda Barech Defai
- The teacher
- Iran Outari
- Ahmad’s mother
- Ait Ansari
- Ahmad’s father
- Biman Mouafi
- Ali, a neighbor
Credits
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Written by
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Edited by
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Produced by
- Ali Reza Zarrin
- Director of photography
- Farhad Saba
- Assistant director
- Kiumars Pourahmad
- Sound editor
- Changiz Sayad
- Sound recording
- Jahangir Mirshekari
- Sound recording
- Asghar Shahverdi
- Sound recording
- Behrouz Moavenian
- Production assistant
- Nasser Zeraati
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