Where Is My Friend`s Home?

Doing his homework, the boy Ahmad, realizes he took his friend’ notebook for mistake. Knowing the teacher demands that the homework has to be done in the notebook, he decides to go look for his friend. He goes to a nearby village trying to find the boy. There, he meets several people and experiences the daily routine of each one of them in a slow and real rhythm. The village is located on the top of the mountains and it has been the scenery of two other films from Kiarostami. With this story, the director started a trilogy exposing the life from the people who live in a quiet village in Iran, portraying how they restore their lives after a devastating earthquake. Where Is My Friend’ Home? (1987) is the first film from the trilogy. Soon after it, he made And Life Goes On (1992, 17th Mostra) and Through The Olive Trees (1994, 18th Mostra).

Born in Iran in 1940. He attended the Fine Arts School at the Teheran University. He started as a screenwriter and director in 1970 with the short The Bread and Alley, and four years later he made his first feature, The Traveller. His films started getting international acclaim with Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987). Since then, all of his films have been screened at Mostra, among them Close Up (1990); Through the Olive Trees (1994), winner of the Critics’ Choice Award at the 18th Mostra; Taste of Cherry (1997), which won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, and Ten (2002). In 2004, he had a full retrospective of his films screened in the 28th Mostra, including the release of his photobook. His latest feature films, Certified Copy (2010, 34th Mostra) and Like Someone in Love (2012, 36th Mostra), in addition to the short Take Me Home (2016, 40th Mostra) were also screened. In 2012, he won the Leon Cakoff Prize, granted by Mostra. Died in 2016 at the age of 76.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA