Babek Ahmed Poor is an Iranian actor born in 1979 in the village of Koker, Gilan Province, who as a child with no acting training played the lead role of Ahmad in Abbas Kiarostami's landmark film Where Is the Friend's House? (1987). The film, the first part of the Koker trilogy, won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and appears on the BFI's list of 50 films to see by age 15. After the 1990 earthquake that devastated northern Iran, Babek survived and appeared as himself in the trilogy's third film, Through the Olive Trees (1994).
The film The Friend's House Is Here (2026), shot secretly in Iran and inspired by Kiarostami's work, has acquired an American distributor - the company Greenwich Entertainment plans its theatrical release in autumn 2026.
The film The Friend's House Is Here had its premiere at the Sundance festival in January 2026, where it received the Special Jury Award for acting ensemble.
