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The First Movie
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The First Movie

Dec 14, 2009
0h 56m
★ 7.3

We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.

Overview

Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just seven hundred people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a dream film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras, and they make their own little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

CONNECTfilm
Screen Siren Pictures
Scottish Screen

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Cast

Mark Cousins

Self – Documentarist

Mark Cousins

Gharib Ahmad Rauf

Self – Translator

Gharib Ahmad Rauf