"Where is the friend’s home?" is the title of a poem by famous Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehri Where is the friend’s home? It was at the twilight when the rider asked: “Where is the friend’s home?” Heavens paused a bit! A passerby bestowed the branch of light between the lips to the darkness of the sands And then pointed the fingers to a poplar tree and said: “Before the tree" There's a garden-alley greener than God’s dream! Where love is as blue as the feathers of honesty You pass until the end of that passage emerging behind puberty Then you turn towards the flower of solitude Just two steps to the flower, You stay by the eternal fountain of the legends of the earth And a transparent fear will capture you In the fluid intimacy of the space, you'll hear a rustling sound: You will see a child Who has climbed up a tall pine tree to pick up bird-offsprings from the nest of light! And you'll ask him Where is the friend’s home? Interpreted by Mir Masood Hosseini -------------------------------------- Also Where Is the Friend's Home? (Persian: خانه دوست کجاست, Khane-ye doust kodjast) is a 1987 Iranian film directed and written by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. The title of the film was derived from a poem by Sohrab Sepehri. It is considered the first film in Kiarostami's Koker trilogy. The film tells a deceptively simple account of a conscientious schoolboy's quest to return his friend's notebook in a neighboring village, since, should his friend fail to hand it in the next day, it is likely he will get expelled. Hence this film has been seen as a metaphor for the sense of civil duty, about loyalty and everyday heroics. The traditional beliefs of Iranian rural people are also shown in many parts of the movie. The film is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. ------ ...
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