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THE CLEANERS

29 Jan

Original title: Im Schatten der Netzwelt
2018; 1h 28m

A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. The documentary details the work experience of content moderators who have to decide which content needs to be removed by employing a moderation system for social media websites.[1]

The film won seven awards and was nominated for nine more. The Cleaners shines a light on a corner of the internet that is meant to be hidden from the average user. The film contrasts the poverty of those who work in content moderation and those in the technology profiting off of their labor.[2] Run Time: 88 minutes[2]

Directors: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
Writers: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck, Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Stars: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Nicole Wong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cleaners_(2018_film)

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Communications, Documentary

 

AMERICAN SWEATSHOP

29 Jan

2025; Not Rated; 1h 34m

A look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty, who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet.

Director: Uta Briesewitz
Writer: Matthew Nemeth
Stars: Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Communications, Drama, Service Workers, Thriller, Women

 

MAX BISHOP

29 Jan

2021; 16+

An out of work hitman finds employment as a janitor at another local elementary school.

Director: Jack Beranek
Writer: Jack Beranek

Stars : Chris Charais, Iris Seifert, Katie Troske

https://www.maxbishopmovie.com/

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Comedy, Crime-Action, Drama, Self-Employed/Freelance

 

MAINTENANCE ARTIST

29 Jan

2025; 1h 30m

NYC’s first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, blends art with waste management in Maintenance Artist, exploring her groundbreaking public art career.

Director: Toby Perl Freilich
Writers: Anne Alvergue; Toby Perl Freilich
Stars: Mierle Ukeles

https://www.maintenanceartist.com/about

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Biography, Documentary, Transportation

 

ANIMAL FARM

29 Jan

2025; PG; 1h 36m
An animal revolution is corrupted from within, fulfilling Orwell’s warning about communism.

Director: Andy Serkis
Writers: George Orwell; Nicholas Stoller
Stars: Gaten Matarazzo, Seth Rogen, Glenn Close
Opening May 1 2026

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Animation, Children, Comedy, Farm & Food

 

TRAIN DREAMS

29 Jan

2025; PG-13; 1h 42m

Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.

Director: Clint Bentley
Writers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Denis Johnson
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Clifton Collins Jr., Felicity Jones

NYTimes: ‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Drama, Migrant workers, Self-Employed/Freelance, Temp/Precarious work

 

Rolling Papers (Pikad Paberid)

29 Jan

2024; 1h 38m
Director: Meel Paliale

Writers: Meel PalialeUrmet Piiling Stars: Mihkel Kuusk; Karl Birnbaum; Edgar Vunsh

A portrait of European youth as they navigate life in their twenties, grappling with uncertainty and searching for purpose.

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Drama, Self-Employed/Freelance, Temp/Precarious work, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

NO OTHER CHOICE

29 Jan

2025 * R * 2h 19m
Director: Park Chan-wook
Writers: Donald E. Westlake; Park Chan-wook; Lee Kyoung-mi
Stars: Lee Byung-hun; Son Ye-jin; Woo Seung Kim

After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Unemployment-Wages, White Collar

 

Self Driver

29 Jan

A desperate cab driver joins a mysterious money-making app, leading him into society’s shadows. As the night progresses, his morals are tested and free will questioned. The depths he’ll sink reveal themselves as darkness falls.
2024

1h 30m
Director: Michael Pierro
Writer: Michael Pierro

Stars
Nathanael Chadwick
Reece Presley
Lauren Welchner

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Cities-Urban, Service Workers, Temp/Precarious work, Thriller, Transportation

 

Alabama Solution

29 Jan

2025; 1h 57m
Directors: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman
Website

Inside one of the nation’s deadliest prison systems, incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up.
In 2019, filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman (HBO’s The Jinx) visited an Alabama prison, where, off camera, incarcerated men whispered a message: terrible things are going on and being kept secret. This reveal sparked an immersive six-year investigation to discover the reality behind one of the nation’s deadliest prison systems. With unprecedented access and video shot on contraband cell phones, the directors learn of a suspicious and violent death, which wasn’t an isolated incident – and that the official version appears far from the truth. A shocking story of brutality, corruption, and a system in collapse, The Alabama Solution shines a light on the inmates fighting for their survival who, against all odds, embark on a powerful campaign of resistance.

“With vastly overcrowded prisons that are grossly understaffed, the men speak of brutal violence, drug addiction, years spent living in filth and decades of laboring with no pay. Some of this became better documented in the news media during the years covered in the film — the Department of Justice sued the state of Alabama in 2020 — but the issues continue and the constitutionality of the state’s “involuntary servitude” work release programs is being challenged as well.”
The New York Times

 
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Posted by on January 29, 2026 in 2026 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Slavery

 
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