Seniors’ Free Matinee

Where Is the Friend’s House?

+ intro by writer and curator Ian Haydn Smith

Khane-ye doust kodjast?

The first part of the acclaimed Koker Trilogy is a deceptively simple tale of childhood friendship with deeper resonances about the lives of adults.

  • Director

    Abbas Kiarostami

  • With

    Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai

  • Iran 1987. 83min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    U

  • English subtitles

The first part of what critics have labelled the ‘Koker Trilogy’ (followed by 1992’s And Life Goes On and Through the Olive Trees in 1994) takes its title from a poem by Sohrab Sepehri. It details the attempts by a young boy, Ahmad, to return a school notebook to Mohammad, a fellow pupil. If Mohammad doesn’t hand it in the next day, with the set homework completed, he faces expulsion. Kiarostami’s deceptively slight tale pits Ahmad against seemingly indifferent adults, resulting in a moving parable of personal responsibility.

Free for the over-60s (booking by phone or in person only), otherwise normal matinee price.

See the Seniors’ Paid Matinee of Hidden + intro on Monday 23 June 14:00 NFT2.

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