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The First Movie (2009)
Directed by Mark Cousins
“We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.”
Documentary · 56m
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.
Cast
Mark Cousins
Crew
- Director
- Mark Cousins
- Writer
- Mark Cousins
- Director of Photography
- Mark Cousins
- Editor
- Timo Langer
- Producer
- Gill Parry, Trish Dolman
Details
- Release date
- 2009-12-14
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Kurdish, English
- Countries
- Canada, United Kingdom
- Production
- CONNECTfilm, Screen Siren Pictures, Scottish Screen