The First Movie

Name: The First Movie
Director: Mark Cousins
Released: 2009
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Mark Cousins, Gharib Ahmad Rauf

2009 · ★ 7.3 · Dir. Mark Cousins

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

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.

Released: 2009-12-14
Runtime: 56 min
Language: EN
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