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The First Movie

The First Movie

# We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.
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📜 Overview: 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.
🌏 Languages Available: Kurdish , English
📆 Date Released: 2009-12-14
⌚ Running Time: 56 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.3

Beloved Cast

Mark Cousins original image
Self – Documentarist
Mark Cousins
Gharib Ahmad Rauf original image
Self – Translator
Gharib Ahmad Rauf

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