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Garbage Dreams at SIFF

Start: Jun 9 2009

End: Jun 10 2009

WATCH GARBAGE DREAMS AT THE

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

June 9, 2009 5:00 PM
Pacific Place Cinema

June 10, 2009 7:00 PM
SIFF Cinema

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"GARBAGE DREAMS is a moving story of young men searching for 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."

- AL GORE

'Garbage Dreams' is the REEL Thing:
Al Gore rewards documentary on Egypt's 'garbage village'.
Click here to read full article

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.

"Mai Iskander manages to make rubbish and recycling riveting."
-THE ROYAL GAZETTE

"No preaching, no lazy text placards, only a deep faith in the boys' ability to tell their own compelling story. The future of their profession may be in danger - but this movie could help save it. "
- MOTHER JONES

"Full of family meals, pop music, and teenage angst. Magnificent."
- THE ACCENT

"One of the most memorable things from the movie is a simple number: Eighty percent. That is the amount of residential waste that the Zaballeen of Cairo are able to recycle."
- HOLLYWOOD BITCHSLAP

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