The First Movie

We tell stories not for revenge, but to find our place in the world.

56 mins
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.

Mark Cousins

Self – Documentarist

Gharib Ahmad Rauf

Self – Translator

Mark Cousins

Director

Robbie Allen

Executive Producer

Trish Dolman

Producer

Tabitha Jackson

Executive Producer

Gill Parry

Producer

Haydn Wazelle

Associate Producer

Mark Cousins

Director of Photography

Brent Calkin

Sound Recordist

Stephen Cheung

Dialogue Editor

Angelo Nicoloyannis

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Angelo Nicoloyannis

Sound Effects Editor

Miguel Nunes

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Miguel Nunes

Supervising Sound Editor

Paul Anderson

Visual Effects Compositor

Timo Langer

Additional Photography

Darri Donnelly

Title Designer

Ben Mullen

Colorist

David Leishman

Online Editor

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