The First Movie 2009 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