Where Is the Friend's Home?

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Where Is the Friend's Home?
Film poster
Directed by	Abbas Kiarostami
Produced by	Ali Reza Zarrin
Written by	Abbas Kiarostami
Starring	Babek Ahmed Poor Ahmed Ahmed Poor
Cinematography	Farhad Saba
Editing by	Abbas Kiarostami
Running time	83 min.
Language	Persian
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Where Is the Friend's Home? (Khane-ye doust kodjast?) (aka Where Is My Friend's House?-UK, Where Is The Friend's House?-North America) is a 1987 Iranian film directed and written by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami.^[1] The title of the film was derived from a poem by Sohrab Sepehri.

The film tells a deceptively simple account of a conscientious schoolboy's quest to return his friend's notebook in a neighboring village, since, should his friend fail to hand it in the next day, it is likely he will get expelled. Hence this film has been seen as a metaphor for the sense of civil duty, about loyalty and everyday heroics. The traditional beliefs of Iranian rural people are also shown in many parts of the movie.

1 Film Details
2 Awards
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Film Details

It has been noted for its poetic use of the Iranian rural landscape, its earnest realism and its touching humour – all hallmarks of Kiarostami's work. It is the first part of what has become known as Kiarostami's "Earthquake trilogy" (completed by Life, and Nothing More... and Through the Olive Trees).

The zig-zag path that the schoolboy crosses several times while going beween Koker and Pochté its actually about five kilometers away from this villages, and was carved by local boys to be used in this film.

[edit] Awards

Locarno International Film Festival – Bronze Leopard
Fajr Film Festival – Golden Plate

[edit] Notes

^ Mike Lorefice (2006). Where Is the Friend's Home, Iran - 1987. metalasylum.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.

[edit] External links

Khane-ye doust kodjast? at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Abbas Kiarostami

1970s	The Bread and Alley (1970) • Breaktime (1972) • The Experience (1973) • The Traveller (1974) • So Can I (1975) • Two Solutions for One Problem (1975) • Colors (1976) • A Wedding Suit (1976) • How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting (1977) • The Report (1977) • Tribute to the Teachers (1977) • Solution (1978) • First Case, Second Case (1979)

1980s	Dental Hygiene (1980) • Orderly or Disorderly (1981) • The Chorus (1982) • Fellow Citizen (1983) • Toothache (1983) • First Graders (1984) • Where Is the Friend's Home (1987) • Homework (1989)

1990s	Close-Up (1990) • Life, and Nothing More... (1991) • Through the Olive Trees (1994) • A propos de Nice, la suite (1995) • Lumière and Company (1996) • Taste of Cherry (1997) • The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

2000s	ABC Africa (2001) • Ten (2002) • Five (2003) • Ten Minutes Older (2003) • 10 on Ten (2004) • The Roads of Kiarostami (2005) • Tickets (2005) • Certified Copy (2008)

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