Babek Ahmadpour

Acting

September 11, 1977 — November 1, 2025

Koker, Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran

5 movies

Biography

Babak Ahamadpour, born in 1977 (or 1356 in the Persian calender) in the village of Koker in Rudbar County, Gilan Province of Iran, is an Iranian boy who is very well known in Iranian cinema and cinephile circles as the main protagonist Ahmed Ahmadpour in Where Is The Friend’s directed by Abbas Kiarostami, which is widely considered one of the greatest films of Iranian and global cinema, alongside his brother named similarly Ahmad Ahamdpour who plays the character’s best friend Mohammad Reza Nema...

🎬 Babek Ahmadpour's Filmography

5 movies sorted by popularity

7.9

An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Where Is The Friend's House?

1987

7.4

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

Through the Olive Trees

1994

7.0

A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps.

Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams

1994

A week after the death of Abbas Kiarostami, a film group travels to the location where the famous Koker trilogy was shot to see if the actors of the films and the people of the region know about Kiarostami's death or not.

And Kiarostami Goes On

2018

A documentary that details the lives of Babak and Ahmad Ahmadpour 30 years after they starred as amateur child actors in Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy.

Tree of Life

2019