The First Movie

The First Movie

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

2009 en 56 minutes

Rating: 7.3

Plot

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.

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Cast

Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins

Self – Documentarist

Gharib Ahmad Rauf

Gharib Ahmad Rauf

Self – Translator

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