Tree of life

Babak and Ahmad Ahmadpour are two brothers that after thirty years, now talk to us about their experience of acting in the movie “Where is the Friend’s Home?” made by Abbas Kiarostami.
Babak Ahmadpour works as a laborer at a mall in the North of Tehran. Documentary-Filmmaker who follows his life story, meets Babak at his workplace.
After a while we find out that Babak is the actor of the movie “Where is the Friend’s Home?” made by Abbas Kiarostami, and the documentary filmmaker asks Babak to cooperate with him in making a documentary about Babak himself.
Agreeing to this, filmmaker and Babak go to Babak’s hometown and his family to the North of Iran where also was the location of the movie “Where is the Friend’s Home?” made by Abbas Kiarostami.
Babak believes that playing in “Where is the Friend’s Home?” in his childhood, has averted his life from its normality and routine path.

  • Houman
    Director
  • Soheila farhadiany
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    derakhat zendegi
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    59 minutes 31 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 15, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Country of Filming:
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
  • Language:
    Persian
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • tehran
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
    world priemiere
Distribution Information
  • Houman Babanorouzi
    Country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
Director - Houman
Director Statement

The documentary film we made about children playing in cinematic films. These children usually face a lot of psychological problems during puberty and adolescence. We think this is an important issue that has been talked less about, We try to express one of these examples, and those actors are a film by Abbas Kiarostami (Iranian filmmaker)