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Title: The First Movie

Release Date: 14 Dec 2009

Runtime: 56m

Genre: Documentary

Director: CONNECTfilm, Screen Siren Pictures, Scottish Screen

Production Companies: CONNECTfilm, Screen Siren Pictures, Scottish Screen

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.

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Average Vote: 7.3 (7 votes)

Cast

  • Self – Documentarist: Mark Cousins
  • Self – Translator: Gharib Ahmad Rauf
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