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 normally only portrayed in current affairs programmes. He gives the kids cameras, and they make their own little movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place, and a chicken who debates justice.
Unfortunately the movie The First Movie is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Mark Cousins | Director |
| Editing | Timo Langer | Editor |
| Production | Haydn Wazelle | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Stephen Cheung | Dialogue Editor |
| Production | Gill Parry | Producer |
| Production | Tabitha Jackson | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Mark Cousins | Writer |
| Sound | Angelo Nicoloyannis | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Melissa Hui | Music |
| Sound | Brent Calkin | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Robbie Allen | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Mark Cousins | Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Paul Anderson | Visual Effects Compositor |
| Art | Darri Donnelly | Title Designer |
| Production | Trish Dolman | Producer |
| Sound | Miguel Nunes | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Angelo Nicoloyannis | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Visual Effects | Alan MacEachern | Animation |
| Editing | Ben Mullen | Colorist |
| Sound | Miguel Nunes | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Editing | David Leishman | Online Editor |
| Camera | Timo Langer | Additional Photography |
