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Garbage Dreams
Gigante
EGYPT
Filmed over the course of four years, Mai Iskander’s Garbage Dreams
URUGUAY
The centerpiece of Uruguayan filmmaker Adrián Biniez’s quiet drama
Director: Mai Iskander looks at the hopes and dreams of some young adults whose livelihoods Director: Adrián Biniez is your classic Everyman – trapped in a dead-end job and an oversized
Producers: Kate Hirson, Mai Iskander wholly depend on trash. As members of the Zaballeen, a small Coptic Executive Producers: body, lonely but unable to define his own yearnings. Jara (Horacio
Cinematographer: Mai Iskander
Christian community settled on the outskirts of Cairo, they inhabit a
Fernando Epstein, Agustina Chiarino
Camandule) spends his nights as a security guard on the graveyard shift
Editors: Kate Hirson, Jessica Reynolds
small village virtually constructed out of the garbage they sort for a Producers: Natacha Cervi, at a Montevideo supermarket in stoic silence – eating pastries, doing
Christoph Friedel
2009 / color / 82 min.
living. crossword puzzles, and watching the confines of his world go by on a
MS: A to Z
Screenwriter: Adrián Biniez
bank of TV monitors.
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Cairo – at 18 million people the largest city in Africa – has no official Cinematographer:
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Arauco Hernández Holz
Mai iSKanDEr
trash collection services and so depends entirely on the work of the Something stirs in Jara, though, when he catches sight of a cleaning
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A graduate from the Tisch School
Zaballeen. These highly resourceful workers recycle an incredible 80
Editor: Fernando Epstein
woman (Leonor Svarcas) in the fluorescent glare of the empty
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of the Arts at New York University, percent of the garbage they collect, an efficiency rate far exceeding that Cast: Horacio Camandule, supermarket floor. Too shy to speak, he begins following the woman
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Mai Iskander works in New York
of the high-tech systems in place among the world’s wealthiest nations.
Leonor Svarcas, Fernando Alonso,
after work, decoding her secrets while continuing to deny his own. Will
as a producer, director, and
Diego Artucio, Ariel Caldarelli,
the gentle giant ever summon the courage to approach her?
cinematographer for A&E, PBS, and Fabiana Charlo, Andrés Gallo,
LOGO. She has worked with many
Virtual outcasts from mainstream society, three teenage trash workers
Federico Garcia, Néstor Guzzini
highly regarded filmmakers, including
– precocious Ahdam, the impish Osama, and shy, artistic Nabil, along Set against the dreary background of economic recession and
2009 / color / 84 min.
Albert Maysles, Edet Belzberg, and with Laila, a young teacher trying to advocate on their behalf – become distinguished by Camandule’s heart-wrenching performance, this
cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek,
further threatened when the city decides to replace them with multina- nearly silent one-way love story – which the director himself considers
and is also known for her commercial
tional garbage disposal companies that engage in more advanced but
work.
aDriÁn BiniEz
“a subversion of the classic … romantic comedy” – earned three
much less sustainable practices. As the boys make difficult choices about
Adrián Biniez is originally from Buenos
awards at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, including the Silver Bear, and
their future, Iskander takes us on a stark yet strangely appealing, at
Aires and worked as a musician before
was nominated for a Golden Bear. Biniez, who is also an actor, wrote,
once uplifting and heartbreaking journey to a place rarely glimpsed by becoming a filmmaker. He acted in directed, and composed the music for this impressive debut.
the outside world.
the film Whisky and directed the
shorts 8 Hours and Total Availability.
Gigante is his first feature film. Preceded by:
Whatever Turns You on
Director: Declan Cassidy
Ireland / 2008 / 4 min.
He may be homeless, but that doesn’t mean that he isn’t resourceful.
Sponsored by: Danny graul, black & Read
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