The First Movie

Year: 2009

Actors: Mark Cousins, Gharib Ahmad Rauf

Duration: 76 min

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 mak...

Genre: Action   Documentary