The First Movie ( The 1st Movie )

The First Movie (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The 1st Movie
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Turkish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Mark Cousins

Written By:
Mark Cousins

Actors:
Mark Cousins

Synopsis:

Kurdish Iraq and the village of Goptapa is the location, because of its beauty and hopes for the future, but also because it has a tragic past. Influenced by 1001 Nights, The First Movie is a "magic realist" documentary, one of the first of its kind. It certainly doesn't skirt the suffering of Goptapa but, rather, it shows how such suffering co-habits with other things, such as wonder and imaginative development. One little boy in the village said he'd like to fly slowly over Goptapa. In The First Movie, that might just be possible.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 February, 2012.