Love and Rubbish

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Director: Hanna Polak | Countries of production: Russia | Year: 2012 | Length: 8 min
Language: Russian with English subtitles

An estimated five million people are homeless in Russia, and one million of them are children.

Love and Rubbish takes an unflinching yet poignant look at the lives of a group of children living in a garbage dump outside of Moscow, showing the hardships they face and the dreams they hold on to.

This film was part of Why Poverty?, a groundbreaking cross-media event taking place in November 2012, which urged people around the world to ask this question with the aim to jump-start national and global debates about poverty in the 21st century.

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