Flick Review < Where Is the Friend's House? | Abbas Kiarostami, 1987

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Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writer: Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematography: Farhad Saba
Starring: Babak Ahmadpour, Ahmad Ahmadpour, Khodabakhsh Defaei

There are two documentaries by the director about the making of this film and the aftermath of the earthquake. He finds that the two lead boys, played by the Amapour (or Ahmed Poor) brothers, survived the earthquake.

The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Where Is the Friend’s House? as one of his favorite films.
In 2016, shortly after Kiarostami’s death, Werner Herzog called him “one of the all-time most wonderful filmmakers” and cited the film as one of his best.