The First Movie

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• Genre(s): Documentary
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Mark Cousins
• Cast(s): Mark Cousins, Gharib Ahmad Rauf

• Duration: 1h 16min
• Music: Stephen Cheung,Angelo Nicoloyannis,Miguel Nunes,Melissa Hui,Brent Calkin
• Award(s): Festival Prize 2010 (Won)
  BAFTA Scotland 2011 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough, The Perfect Neighbor
• Story:
  An innovative 'magic realist' documentary set in Iraq. Filmmaker Mark Cousins, who was brought up in a Northern Irish war zone, travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just 700 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. They make little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice. Despite the production being stopped twice by the Iraqi secret police, The First Movie is about wonder and the power of the imagination.
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