Great Green Movies – Garbage Dreams
Green movies engage, question, and have you reflect. Garbage Dreams does just that. This movie is about living among trash, in Cairo.
You might think this a terrible prospect. But for the Zabballeen garbage is a “gift from God.” They recycle 90 % of the garbage they collect on Cairo’s streets. To them it’s alife of honor, making something useful out of trash. This perspective is shown to the viewer through the eyes and voices of three young Zabbaleen men, whose job, and way of life, is at risk from new mechanical recycling methods from overseas.
Of course recycling stuff in a world to which its limits are becoming painfully clear, with expanding populations and dwindling fossil energy sources, is an honorable activity. Al Gore personally chose this from among an offering of other green movies to receive the Reel Current Award at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival.
