Is Where Is the Friend's Home? a good film for kids?

Yes — the story follows an eight-year-old protagonist and the pacing suits older children, though its emotional depth rewards adult viewers equally. There is no violence or adult content.

Koja mitunam filme 'khane-ye doust kojast' ro online bebinam?

On K-Time you can stream it directly in your browser or on your Android TV and phone — no VPN needed, no extra software to install, and you can cancel anytime.

Is this film part of a trilogy?

Yes. Where Is the Friend's Home? is the first film in Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy. The same villages and some of the same characters reappear in the two follow-up films made after the 1990 earthquake.

Aya in filme irani zirnevis farsi dare?

The version on K-Time includes Persian subtitles so you can follow the film comfortably. The original audio is in Persian, filmed with a largely local non-professional cast from the Koker region.

khane ye doust kojast

Name: khane ye doust kojast
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987
Duration: 83 min
Cast: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari, Ait Ansari

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Cast: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Kheda Barech Defai, Iran Outari, Ait Ansari

Where Is the Friend's Home? is a 1987 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, following a young boy's determined journey through the villages of northern Iran to return a schoolmate's notebook before morning — a quiet, tender portrait of childhood conscience.

What is khane ye doust kojast about?

Eight-year-old Ahmad accidentally takes home his classmate Mohamed's exercise notebook at the end of a school day. Knowing that the strict teacher will expel anyone who does not complete homework in the correct book, Ahmad sets off on foot through winding paths between the twin villages of Koker and Poshteh to find Mohamed's house and return the notebook before nightfall. Adults he meets along the way are too busy or too dismissive to help. The boy keeps going, guided by nothing but a sense of right and wrong. The landscape itself — steep stone paths, fading light, old men slow-walking — becomes as central to the story as Ahmad's small, urgent mission.

The K-Time take

Kiarostami works with a child non-actor and the unhurried rhythms of rural life to produce something that feels closer to documentary than fiction. The film asks whether children's moral seriousness is taken seriously by adults, and it lets that question sit with the viewer long after the final frame.

Cast & crew

Abbas Kiarostami directs with his signature restraint, drawing naturalistic performances from a largely non-professional cast. Babek Ahmed Poor carries the film as Ahmad, conveying urgency and quiet frustration without any theatrical heightening. Ahmed Ahmed Poor plays the classmate whose fate drives the whole plot, appearing briefly but memorably.

Context & significance

Where Is the Friend's Home? is the first part of Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy, set in the real villages of northern Iran near the Caspian coast. For the Iranian diaspora, the film is a time capsule of a rural world — the whitewashed walls, the dusty footpaths, the rhythms of a pre-digital childhood — that many viewers know through grandparents' stories if not through personal memory. It entered the international consciousness as evidence that Iranian cinema was producing something singular: humanist, unhurried, and deeply rooted in place. Watching it abroad, the texture of everyday Iranian life carries a particular ache.

Where & how to watch

Where Is the Friend's Home? is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles. Stream it on your web browser, Android TV, or phone — no VPN required, no geo-blocking, no extra download. Start or cancel your subscription anytime.