Film Selection
The Cleaners
Dive into a secret, third-world shadow industry of online content moderation. Here we meet five ‘digital scavengers’, a handful of thousands of people outsourced from Silicon Valley whose job is to delete ‘inappropriate’ content from the internet. In a parallel struggle, we meet people around the globe whose lives are dramatically affected by online censorship. A typical ‘cleaner’ must observe and rate thousands of intense images every day, from war-zone photography to pornography, leading to lasting psychological impact. Yet underneath their work lies profound questions around what makes an image art or propaganda and what defines journalism.
The film is nominated for 'Rights Now!' Award
Hans Block is a German theatre director, musician, and filmmaker. He studied music at the Berlin University of the Arts and directing at the Ernst Busch Institute for Theatre Directing, also in Berlin. Moritz Riesewieck is a German theatre director, author, and filmmaker. He studied economics as a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation, followed by directing at the Ernst Busch Institute for Theatre Directing in Berlin. Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block have been working as a team since 2007 under the label Laokoon, creating theatre performances and cross-media work. The Cleaners is their debut documentary.
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World explores the promise of open-source investigation, taking viewers inside the exclusive world of the ‘investigative citizen journalist’ collective known as Bellingcat. In cases ranging from the MH17 disaster to the poisoning of a Russian spy in the United Kingdom, the Bellingcat team’s quest for truth will shed light on the fight for journalistic integrity in an era of fake news and alternative facts.
The film is nominated for 'Rights Now!' Award
Hans Pool was born in the Netherlands in 1962. He is an award-winning director and cinematographer who combines a journalistic approach with intellectual depth. He masterfully conveys topics that are difficult to grasp with a cinematic language that everyone understands.
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