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GARBAGE DREAMS tells the story of three young boys living on the outskirts of Cairo in the world’s largest ‘garbage village’, the home of some 60,000 Zaballeen or ‘garbage people’. The Zallabeen recycle 80 percent of the waste they collect, keeping their economic system afloat. However, when their community is challenged by the threat of the globalisation of its trade, the young boys are forced to make decisions about their own futures and that of their surroundings. Described by the New York Times as a film that records the “tremblings of a culture at a crossroads”, GARBAGE DREAMS takes its audience right to the heart of the thriving economic village.