Garbage Dreams ( We Are the Zaballeen )

Garbage Dreams (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: We Are the Zaballeen
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
79 min + 18 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mai Iskander

Written By:
Mai Iskander

Actors:
Mai Iskander

Synopsis:

Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen, Arabic for 'garbage people.' Far ahead of any modern 'Green' initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect. When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.AL GORE, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner and former Vice-President of the United States, says: ''Garbage Dreams' is a moving story of young men searching for a ways to eke out a living for their families and facing tough choices as they try to do the right thing for the planet. Mai Iskander guides us into a 'garbage village,' a place so different from our own, and yet the choices they face there are so hauntingly familiar. Ultimately, 'Garbage Dreams' makes a compelling case that modernization does not always equal progress.'

Following on the grimy heels of "Marina of the Zabbaleen" (released here in September) comes "Garbage Dreams," a second documentary about a poor community of trash recyclers on the outskirts of Cairo. But in the hands of the director and photographer Mai Iskander, this new film digs deeper into the politics of a life that few would choose but many depend on. Expertly weaving personal fears, family tensions and political action (the zabbaleen don't whine; they strive to modernize), "Garbage Dreams" records the tremblings of a culture at a crossroads

GARBAGE DREAMS follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen, Egypt's 'garbage people.' When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of their trade, each boy is forced to make choices that will impact his life and the future of his community.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 17 December, 2010.

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