Garbage Dreams -- Film Review

Shortlisted for this year's feature-documentary Oscar race, Mai Iskander's "Garbage Dreams," now playing an exclusive engagement at IFC Center in New York, is poised to benefit from the current passion for going green. This portrait of the Zaballeen, the "garbage people" who for years have handled the mountains of trash produced by the city of Cairo, is an evocative examination of the clash between tradition and modernism in the handling of an age-old problem.