Film
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ON IRAN Two Boots Pioneer Theater offers two screenings of work by Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami.First up is “Where Is the Friend’s Home?” (1987), which follows an 8-year-old boy traveling through two Iranian villages in an attempt to return an important notebook to a classmate (Friday, 7:15 p.m).The second film is “And Life Goes On (Life and Nothing More)” (1992), a part-fiction, part-documentary exploration of the 1990 earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people in northern Iran. The film follows a father and son who set out after the earthquake to find out what happened to the two boys whose story was told in “Where Is the Friend’s Home?” Along the way, they travel through the devastated landscape and interview survivors (Saturday, 7 p.m.). Both screenings: Two Boots Pioneer Theater, 155 E. 3rd St. at Avenue A, 212-591-0434, $9 general, $6.50 members.
MOON RIVER Blake Edwards’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961), in which Audrey Hepburn plays a pre-“Sex and the City” Manhattan single, is screened this weekend. Saturday, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Makor, 35 W. 67th St., between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, 212-415-5500, $9.
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