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The first movie

A tribute to the imaginative resilience of children. When filmmaker Mark Cousins and his crew travel to Goptapa, a small Kurdish Village in Northern Iraq devastated by Saddam Hussein's regime, they discover children who have known nothing but war their entire lives and have never experienced the magic of cinema. The filmmakers sew together a movie screen from old sheets and set up a projector, instantly creating a movie theater that plays children's classics in the village center. But the real magic happens when the children receive Flip camcorders and create their own movies filled with a child's wonder and boundless imagination. The resulting films are the true gift. They are tickets to see a different Iraq, and the world, through a child's transformative eyes. The film conveys the power of cinema to enchant and inspire, even amidst the bloodshed of war.

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  • "What's it like to be a child in war - not when the conflict is raging, but when the war tide is out, as it were, when kids are telling stories or playing games? The First Movie is about the "not-war". It came about because director Mark Cousins and producer Gill Parry separately went to Kurdistan. They loved the place and wanted to make a film about it. Mark thought it would be best to focus on kids, because their minds are uninhibited and developing fast. A good way to try to see inside those little minds, he thought, would be to give the kids cameras and let them film what they liked. Mark and Gill travelled around Kurdish Iraq in 2008, and chose the village of Goptapa as their location, because of its beauty and hopes for the future, but also because it has a tragic past. Influenced a little 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."
  • "A tribute to the imaginative resilience of children. When filmmaker Mark Cousins and his crew travel to Goptapa, a small Kurdish Village in Northern Iraq devastated by Saddam Hussein's regime, they discover children who have known nothing but war their entire lives and have never experienced the magic of cinema. The filmmakers sew together a movie screen from old sheets and set up a projector, instantly creating a movie theater that plays children's classics in the village center. But the real magic happens when the children receive Flip camcorders and create their own movies filled with a child's wonder and boundless imagination. The resulting films are the true gift. They are tickets to see a different Iraq, and the world, through a child's transformative eyes. The film conveys the power of cinema to enchant and inspire, even amidst the bloodshed of war."@en
  • "Innovative documentary from director Mark Cousins, set in the small Kurdish-Iraqi village of Goptapa. Cousins supplies cameras to the local children, who in turn make their own films - with subjects ranging from serious issues, such as war, to fantasy."@en
  • "Innovative documentary from director Mark Cousins, set in the small Kurdish-Iraqi village of Goptapa. Cousins supplies cameras to the local children, who in turn make their own films - with subjects ranging from serious issues, such as war, to fantasy."

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