'Where Is My Friend's House?' at Tokyo Film Festival

The feature film 'Where Is My Friend's House?' directed by the late Abbas Kiarostami will be screened at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan.

The movie "Where is the friend's house?" Directed by Zindayad Abbas Kiarostami, it will be screened at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan, quoted by the General Directorate of Public Relations and International Affairs of the Center, the movie "Khane Dost Kajast?" Directed by Zindayad Abbas Kiarostami, produced by the Intellectual Development Center for Children and Adolescents, it will be screened at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival in Japan.

This film will be shown in the special section "Akira Kurosawa's Popular Films" on Monday, November 4, 1405 (October 26, 2026) at 19:25 at TOHO Cinemas Chanter in Tokyo.

In this section, which is dedicated to showing a number of outstanding works of cinema history, in addition to "Where is the friend's house?", the film "Circus" by Charlie Chaplin and 2 films "Sanshiro Sugata" and "Zestan" directed by Akira Kurosawa will also be shown.

"Where is the friend's house?" The product of 1987 is a center for intellectual development of children and teenagers, which tells the story of Ahmed, a student who goes to the neighboring village to return his friend's homework book.

In this film, Abbas Kiarostami has depicted concepts such as friendship, responsibility, conscience and commitment with a simple narrative of children's lives. This work is considered one of the prominent films of Iranian children's and adolescent cinema, which, after nearly four decades of its production, continues to be noticed in international film events.

The screening of this film in the special section of the Tokyo festival provides an opportunity to re-introduce one of the lasting works of Iranian cinema and introduce the new generation of international audiences to the cinema of Abbas Kiarostami.

The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival with the slogan "Link; "Cinema connects us to a world beyond" will be held and will host the works of cinematographers from different countries in its different sections.

This festival will be held from 4 to 13 Aban 1405 (26 October to 4 November 2026) in Tokyo, Japan.