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Edition 2018

Official Selection Panorama

The Cleaners

We enter the darkest corner of the Internet; digital cleaning For the first time, we discover the world of the so-called “content moderators”, those who work for large companies such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google reviewing every potentially offensive image or video that we upload on the web. Who controls what we publish, watch, and think? While permissiveness policies on the web are written in the modern and sumptuous Silicon Valley, the global headquarters from where internet content is moderated is in Manila (Philippines), where tens of thousands of young people are hired to “clean the Internet” , analysing thousands and thousands of images and videos in ten-hour shifts. The film offers an eye-opening reflection on what lies beneath the social media industry and everything they hide.

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Hans Block

Hans Block (1985) is a German theatre director, filmmaker, and musician. He studied music (drums) at the University of Arts in Berlin and theatre directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Moritz Riesewieck (1985) is a German essay author, scriptwriter, theatre and film director. He studied theatre directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Before that, he worked as assistant director at Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin.

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Moritz Riesewieck

Hans Block (1985) is a German theatre director, filmmaker, and musician. He studied music (drums) at the University of Arts in Berlin and theatre directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Moritz Riesewieck (1985) is a German essay author, scriptwriter, theatre and film director. He studied theatre directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Before that, he worked as assistant director at Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin.

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2018

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Hans Block
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Moritz Riesewieck

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