Garbage Dreams
United States, 2008 | 83 min. | Dir. Mai Iskander
The Zaballeen, garbage collectors of Cairo, are a proud, close-knit community: they collect trash, they sort it, they recycle 80% of what they find. They live in “garbage villages.” This remarkable documentary manages to be both personal and global: when Cairo contracts foreign companies to collect their garbage, the younger generation of Zaballeen is faced with the dual tensions of losing their business and (less explicitly) not wanting to fucking collect garbage anymore. It's fascinating and, to its credit, not at all sad.
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