See You Garbage! () is a Canadian short comedy-drama film, directed by Romain Dumont and released in 2021.Pierre-Alexandre Fradet, "Au plaisir les ordures". Séquences, No 328 (2021). The film centres on Nino (Guillaume Laurin), Élle (Hamza Meziani) and Belz (Hamidou Savadogo), three garbage collectors from Montreal who have been unexpectedly invited to have Christmas dinner with the Prime Minister (Steve Laplante) and his wife (Caroline Dhavernas) 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 social class values come into conflict.Kyle Bain, "See You, Garbage!". Film Threat, January 30, 2022.
The cast also includes Ralph Prosper as the prime minister's bodyguard.
The film premiered in September 2021 at the Trouville Off-Courts Film Festival in Trouville-sur-Mer, France,"« Fanmi » présenté en première canadienne au TIFF !". CTVM, September 9, 2021. and had its Canadian premiere in the national short film competition at the 2021 Festival du nouveau cinéma. It was later screened at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival, 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’". Deadline Hollywood, February 4, 2022. and at the 2022 Canadian Film Festival, where it won the award for best short film.
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