
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.
- Year: 2009
- Country: Canada, United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: CONNECTfilm, Screen Siren Pictures, Scottish Screen
- Keyword: iraq, children, filming
- Director: Mark Cousins
- Cast: Mark Cousins, Gharib Ahmad Rauf