Marina of the Zabbaleen

Marina of the Zabbaleen is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Engi Wassef that examines the life of Marina, a 7yearold Egyptian girl living in a Zabbaleen garbagecollecting village in Cairo. The film debuted at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival with soldout screenings. The film piqued the interest of many movie goers with its poignant tagline, Garbage and God are the only options plight of Christians peasants in Cairo.

The film transforms the gritty landfill Zabbaleen village known locally as Garbage City, one of the very few Coptic Christian communities in a mostly Muslimpopulated Cairo, into a beautiful, dreamlike portrait of family, childhood, and spirituality.The film introduces us to the intricate world of sevenyearold Marina, the middle child in a family of five, a girl who, despite the decaying ghetto she lives in, spends her days riding flying elephants and befriending mystical pigeons. She dreams of becoming a doctor. ........

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