The First Movie
“We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.”
2009•56m•7.3•Released
Documentary
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
Writer
Mark Cousins
Languages
Kurdish, English
Studio
CONNECTfilm
Cast
Mark Cousins
Self – Documentarist
Gharib Ahmad Rauf
Self – Translator
Production
Company
CONNECTfilm
Company
Screen Siren Pictures
Company
Scottish Screen
Producer
Gill Parry
Producer
Trish Dolman
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