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''See You Garbage!'' () is a Canadian short comedy-drama film, directed by Romain Dumont and released in 2021. The film centres on Nino (Guillaume Laurin), Élle (Hamza Meziani) and Belz (Hamidou Savadogo), three garbage collectors from
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who have been unexpectedly invited to have Christmas dinner with the Prime Minister ( Steve Laplante) and his wife (
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) as part of a staged photo opportunity to show off how in touch the prime minister is with the common man, only for the dinner to go awry as their vastly different sets of
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values come into conflict. The cast also includes
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as the prime minister's bodyguard. The film premiered in September 2021 at the Trouville Off-Courts Film Festival in
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,
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, and had its Canadian premiere in the national short film competition at the
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. It was later screened at the 2022
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, where it received an honorable mention for the Narrative Shorts Grand Jury Prize,Patrick Hipes
"2022 Slamdance Winners Include ‘The Civil Dead,’ ‘Hannah Ha Ha’ And ‘Forget Me Not’"
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'', February 4, 2022.
and at the 2022
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, where it won the award for best short film.


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* 2021 films 2021 comedy-drama films 2021 short films Canadian comedy-drama short films Quebec films French-language Canadian films 2020s Canadian films {{2020s-Canada-film-stub