The Cleaners

The Cleaners
Director
Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
Country
Germany, Brazil, Italy
Year
2018
Genre
Documentary
Scriptwriters
Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
Production
A gebrueder beetz film production
In co-production with Grifa Filmes, WDR, VPRO, rbb and I Wonder Pictures
In association with Motto Pictures and arte
Production support by Film- and Medienstiftung NRW, Creative Europe - Media Program of the European Union, Ancine, FSA, BRDE and Blue Ice Docs
World Sales: Cinephil
http://www.gebrueder-beetz.de/produktionen/the-cleaners

Storyline

When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn’t like.. violence, pornography and.. political content. Who is controlling what we see and what we think?

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Sundance Film Festival 2018
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival 2018
DocsBarcelona - International Documentary Film Festival 2018
Official Section - Panorama