The Cleaners

A film by Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck

“Delete…Ignore…Delete… Ignore…”

Someone is out there censoring your social media feed.

Do their decisions distort your understanding of the world as much as clever hoaxes and “fake news”? They’re hired by Silicon Valley leaders like Facebook and Google to do “digital cleaning,” content moderators who are paid to sift through and remove what they deem as inappropriate content on the internet, thereby influencing what people around the world see and think. Told in the sinister style of a neon, cyberpunk thriller, The Cleaners charts social media’s evolution from a shared vision of a global village to a dangerous web of fake news, extremism and radicalization.

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Director

Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck

Producer

Christian Beetz and Georg Tschurtschenthaler

Runtime

88 Minutes

Rights Represented

Educational Rights

Captions Available

None Available

Language

English

Press

“A neon-lit documentary shot like a noir thriller”

- Variety

“A movie of the moment”

- The Verge

“A riveting documentary…as if Frankenstein’s monster is out of control”

- Screen International

“Disturbing on several levels”

- The Los Angeles Times
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Festival & Awards

Official Selection – Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection – International Film Festival Rotterdam

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The Cleaners

Where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn‘t like

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