The First Movie (2009)

12/14/2009 (CA) • 56m

Documentary

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.

Top Billed Cast

Mark Cousins

Self – Documentarist

Gharib Ahmad Rauf

Self – Translator


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

iraq

kids

filming

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