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THE FIRST MOVIE
 | QFT
Thursday 29 April 6.45pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Mark Cousins / UK/ Iraq / 76 mins / Cert 15 | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | We see Iraqi kids regularly in our media. Nearly always, they are war kids. But what about their imaginative lives? Inspired by Charles Laughton’s movie Night of the Hunter, Mark Cousins went to a small village in the Kurdish North, took a projector, some great films and 3 small cameras to give to kids. As he filmed he began to think about his native Belfast, and about what it felt like to grow up here. The resulting film is the opposite of a war movie.
It’s more like a musical. Trees sing and a child flies. Filmmaker Ken Russell called it “achingly lyrical” and Wim Wenders said that he loved it.
“This is a terrifically enjoyable and engaging film: open-minded and open-hearted, and utterly unlike the material on regular commercial release.” The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw
The Director will introduce the film.
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