‘Garbage in the Garden of Eden’
by Giovanni Fazio
Aug 15, 2013
German-Turkish director Fatih Akin, best known locally for 2005′s excellent doc on Istanbul’s music scene “Crossing the Bridge,” turns his attention to a small tea-growing village called Camburnu on the coast of the Black Sea. This was the hometown of Akin’s grandparents, and it’s this personal connection that drove him to spend several years covering how the idyllic region was devastated when the government built a massive garbage dump there, resulting in this compelling documentary.
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