The First Movie (2009)
2009-12-14 • Documentary • 0h56m • Released
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We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.
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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.
CONNECTfilm, Screen Siren Pictures, Scottish Screen
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