Who would have thought that garbage can be recycled in proportion of 80%? In the outskirts of Cairo, there is a community of Coptic Christians, inhabited by scavengers, Zabbaleen, which assured until recently the collecting, sorting and recycling of the garbage of the whole town, job for which children are trained in a special school.
Raised in the scavenger’s village, three teenagers have to deal with the appearance of private companies and high technologies, which put in danger the future and therefore the survival of their community.
AUDIO: Arabic
SUBTITLE: English, Romanian
awards and festivals
2009 - BEST DOCUMENTARY, Hollywood Film Festival, USA 2009 - BEST DOCUMENTARY, SXSW, USA 2009 - BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, Santa Cruz Film Festival, USA 2009 - BEST DOCUMENTARY NOMINEE, Directors’ Guild of America, USA 2009 - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands