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A dissident filmmaker relocates to a rural border town to direct a film remotely in nearby Turkey and finds himself embroiled in a local scandal.
Where is the Friend’s House (1987)
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Director
Abbas KiarostamiProducer
Ali Reza ZarinCast
Babek Ahmedpoor, Ahmed Ahmedpoor, Khodabakhsh Defaei, Iran OutariCountry
IranRuntime
83 minAccessibility
Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad’s notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad’s home in the neighbouring village.
This special collaboration between Montclair Film and La Cinémathèque celebrates The Space Between: Journeys in Iranian Cinema. Featuring a special introduction and Q&A with curator, Gerard Amsellem, local teacher, artist, and filmmaker from New Wave Productions along with Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Associate Professor at Seton Hall University.
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Featured Films in this Series:
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Gabbeh (1996)
November 2
When an old couple washes their gabbeh – a type of Persian rug – a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.
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Where is the Friend’s House (1987)
October 5
An Iranian schoolboy scours a neighbouring village for a classmate’s house so that he can return an important notebook.
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Dead End (1977)
September 14
A young woman is living with her mother at the end of a dead-end street. The young woman notices that a man standing in the street stares into her room every day. After a while, she gets used to his presence and falls in love with him.
