Where Is The Friend’s House? - English subtitled
Iranian classic by Abbas Kiarostami (Taste Of Cherry) in which an eight-year-old boy searches for the home of a classmate whose school notebook he accidentally took with him.
Kiarostami takes a simple premise and transforms it into a miraculous child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. Ahmed accidentally takes his friend’s exercise book home from school with him. Because his friend is already close to being expelled, he travels to the next village to find his friend’s home. The journey is far from safe: Ahmed doesn’t know his friend’s exact address.
As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two villages in a desolate landscape, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in all its richness and complexity. It’s also a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility.