Seven-year-old Marina lives in the Cairo community of the Zabbaleen, who specialize in disposing and recycling the city's waste. Unfazed by the squalor -- and her mother's rent worries -- Marina turns her village into a fanciful dream world. In this detailed and absorbing portrait of the playful Marina and her family, director Engi Wassef casts a compassionate eye on Cairo's endangered Christian Coptic community.
Marina of the Zabbaleen has generally received positive reviews.
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By Adam Keleman (21) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2009
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Marina of the Zabbaleen was released in 2009 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 4 reviews, giving Marina of the Zabbaleen (2009) an average rating of 72%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 80% and users giving an average score of 80%.
With a score of 72%, Marina of the Zabbaleen is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like The Princess and the Frog, The Blind Side and Invictus.
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