The First Movie

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.

Country:

Canada,

United Kingdom

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

56 minutes

Year:

2009

Director:

Mark Cousins

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Company:

CONNECTfilm,

Screen Siren Pictures,

Scottish Screen

Cast:

Self – Documentarist

Self – Translator

Crew:

Director

Editor

Associate Producer

Dialogue Editor

Producer