The First Movie
“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.
Director: Mark Cousins
Cast
Mark Cousins
Self – Documentarist
Gharib Ahmad Rauf
Self – Translator
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Details
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release
- Dec 14, 2009
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Studios
- CONNECTfilm, Screen Siren Pictures, Scottish Screen
- Director
- Mark Cousins