The First Movie

2009

English

7.3

64%

Mark Cousins Director

Mark Cousins as Self

Mohammed Mahmud as Self Falla

Falla as Self - a friend of Mohammed Mahmud

Gharib Ahmad Rauf as Self - Mark Cousins' translator

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.