Watch The First Movie (2009) Online
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- RUNTIME: 1h 16m
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. Read More
Watch The First Movie online. Featuring , The First Movie is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.3. It is available for streaming online in the USA The movie was released on 2009. The First Movie was directed by Mark Cousins. Read Less