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The First Movie

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.

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Released
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Language
Kurdish
  • iraq
  • kids
  • filming

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Mark Cousins

Produced in

Canada, United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical (limited)14 Dec 2009
    • TV19 Dec 2009

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The First Movie was released on 14 December 2009.

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