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Directed by: Mark Cousins
Country:
United Kingdom, Canada
Runtime: 1hr 16min
Year: 2009
Last Screened:
Sun 17th Apr 2016
In this innovative 'magic realist' documentary set in Iraq, Mark Cousins travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish/Iraqi village of just 700 people, trying 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.