Twenty-five years ago, Guillermo Cabrera Infante presented Abbas Kiarostami onstage at the Olympia Theater in downtown Miami and the director introduced the first film in his sublime interlacing trilogy set in the northern Iranian village of Koker — for the first time in the U.S. A premise of fable-like simplicity — a boy searches for the home of his classmate whose school notebook he has accidentally taken — is transformed into a miraculous child’s eye adventure of the everyday. His quest becomes both a revealing portrait of Iranian society and a touching parable about the meaning of personal responsibility. Suffused with all the wonder, beauty, tension, and mystery one day can contain, Where is the Friend’s House? established Kiarostami’s reputation as one of cinema’s most sensitive and profound humanists.