
Where Is The Friend's House?
Kiarostami's classic Iranian film about a boy trying to return his classmate's notebook. A poetic odyssey from the village of Koker that captures the lives of ordinary people with the force of Italian neorealism.
Ahmad Ahmadpour (born around 1979 in Gilan province, Iran) was an Iranian child actor permanently linked to Abbas Kiarostami's Where Is the Friend's House? (1987), the opening film of the celebrated Koker trilogy. At around seven years old he played Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, the schoolboy whose notebook sets the story in motion. After his brief acting career he worked as a military nurse in the Iranian Army. He died on 23 October 2025 in Tehran of cardiac arrest, aged 44.
Ahmad Ahmadpour died on October 23, 2025 in Tehran from cardiac arrest in his sleep at the age of 44; his death sparked a wave of condolences in the Iranian film community.
😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.