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The First Movie

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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…

DirectorMark Cousins
WriterMark Cousins
ProducersRobbie Allen·Trish Dolman

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Cast · Directed by Mark Cousins

MCMark Cousins
Mark Cousins
Self – Documentarist
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Gharib Ahmad Rauf
Self – Translator

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