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MSU Film Collective: WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S HOUSE?

WHERE:
Wells Hall

WHEN:
October 2, 2025

WHAT:
Film

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(Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1987, 84′)

Presented by Ali Kherarmand

The first film in Abbas Kiarostami’s sublime, interlacing KOKER TRILOGY takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate, whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous, child’s-eye adventure of the everyday. As our young hero zigzags determinedly across two towns, aided (and sometimes misdirected) by those he encounters, his quest becomes both a revealing portrait of rural Iranian society in all its richness and complexity and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility.