SEVENTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL
Garbage Dreams
8:05 min
Documentary
Mai Iskander, Director & Producer
Winner of the Sustainability Award
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“If there weren’t any garbage collectors, Cairo wouldn’t be clean,” says a teenager named Adham at the opening of Garbage Dreams. He is one of 60,000 Zaballeen; entrepreneurial garbage collectors who collect and recycle one-third of Cairo’s waste — over 3,000 tons a day. But the Zaballeen finds themselves at a crossroads when the city they keep clean hire foreign multinational disposal companies to collect Cairo’s garbage. Garbage Dreams follows the Zaballeen’s novel efforts to evolve their trade as Egypt modernizes their garbage disposal system and accompanies them on their journey into the modern world where change is inevitable and necessary.RELATED CATEGORIES
seventh annual festival, economic justice, environment, international
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