CinemaOSMovie · 2009 · 0h 56m

The First Movie

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

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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.

Directed byMark Cousins

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 56m
Language
EN
Released
December 14, 2009
Studios
CONNECTfilmScreen Siren PicturesScottish Screen

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Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins

Self – Documentarist

Gharib Ahmad Rauf

Self – Translator

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Directed by
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins
Written by
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins
Produced by
Gill Parry
Trish Dolman

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