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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

 

Baristas vs. Billionaires (2025)

29 Jan

Contact: nicholas.wolaver@gmail.com
Starbucks baristas in Buffalo unite against corporate exploitation during the pandemic, sparking a generational uprising among working-class Millennials and Gen Z as they challenge a powerful billionaire CEO and fight for their rights.

World Premiere at the Buffalo International Film Festival, October 10th, 2025.

A film by Mark Mori.
See more on our website: https://www.baristasvsbillionaires.com
X: https://x.com/BaristasVsBill
Instagram: / baristasvsbillionaires
Facebook: / the-baristas-vs-the-billionaire-6155471785…
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29103859…

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

 

Feed/Back 

04 Jan

Pitch deck and trailer 

Locally produced (DC) on a low budget, when it premiered at Fade to Black Film Festival, it really energized other restaurant workers in the audience. 

MacKenzie River Foy (she/they)
Storyteller | Producer | Archivist

http://mackenzieriver.space

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Experimental, SciFi, Service Workers

 

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (2022)

04 Jan

1h 27m
Filmmaker Abigail Disney examines income inequality at her family’s company, asking why the American dream seems so out of reach for so many.

The Magic Kingdom Is Tragic for Workers

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Documentary, Entertainment Industry, Service Workers

 

American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System (2023)

04 Jan

A provocative look at the costs, closures, and inequities plaguing American hospitals, which today are more about money and power than serving Americans’ health needs of individuals and the community as a whole.

Jon Reiss
Marketing and Distribution Producer
American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System
reiss.jon@gmail.com
310-866-7210

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Health care, Safety & Health

 

FAIR PLAY (2023)

04 Jan

R; 1h 53m
Luke and Emily don’t just live together – they also work together as analysts in the high-stakes and high-pressure world of finance, forced to abide by company policy and keep their relationship secret. When a job opens up above them, Emily is thrilled to hear whispers that it might be going to Luke. But when it ultimately ends up hers, the couple is forced into a difficult situation. With the tables turned, Luke finds it harder to support her success and the pair start to unravel. With a delicacy that more genre films aiming to tackle weightier topics could afford to emulate, Domont cooly constructs a contemporary story about how a gendered disparity in finance and power can wreck a seemingly successful relationship.Back in 1994, the corporate thriller Disclosure posited that the only thing scarier than a woman scorned was a woman scorned who was also your boss, painting a laughably dated portrait of the evils of having women climb the corporate ladder. Fair Play, while recalling many a Michael Douglas thriller from Fatal Attraction to A Perfect Murder, is a smart rebuke to such misogyny. The biggest threat here ends up being a man’s ego.(Benjamin Lee, The Guardian)

Director/Writer: Chloe Domont

Stars

 
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Posted by on January 4, 2025 in A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Drama, Finance, Women

 

System Error

05 Oct

2018 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 36m

“System Error” seeks answers to the great contradictions of our time and makes it clear why, despite everything, everything continues as before. The film shows the world from the perspective of people fascinated by the possibilities of capitalism. Whether European financial strategists, American hedge fund managers or Brazilian meat producers: They cannot, must not or do not even want to imagine a world without an expanding economy.

A humorous personal and essay film addressing architecture, habitation, space, density, xenophobia, gentrification and urban development. A power struggle between mountain peasants who have been raising milk cows on common land and a village bailiff trying to gain power driving them off the land.

Initial release: May 10, 2018 (Germany)
Director: Florian Opitz
Screenplay: Florian Opitz
Cinematography: Andy Lehmann
Producers: Florian Opitz, Jan Krüger

WEBSITE

livia@icarusfilms.com
718-488-8900

 
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Posted by on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Big Business/Corporations, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Farm & Food, Finance, Global Economy, Philosophy, Technology

 

Time Thieves

05 Oct

2018 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 25m

A look at the puzzle of “time poverty,” which equates to the more people try to save time, the less they seem to have of it.

Initial release: 2018
Director: Cosima Dannoritzer
Screenplay: Cosima Dannoritzer
Producers: Christian Popp, Carles Brugueras, Marieke van den Bersselaar

livia@icarusfilms.com 718-488-8900

 
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Posted by on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Automation, Big Business/Corporations, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Slavery, Technology

 

Idiocracy (2006)

24 Dec
R | | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 25 January 2007 (Germany) 

Director: Mike Judge
Writers: Mike Judge (story), Mike Judge (screenplay) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of “average American”, is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed down that he’s easily the most intelligent person alive.

 
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Posted by on December 24, 2018 in Automation, Big Business/Corporations, Comedy, Consumerism, SciFi, Technology

 

The Big Short (2015)

24 Dec
R | | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 23 December 2015 (USA)

In 2006-7 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.

Director: Adam McKay 
Writers: Charles Randolph (screenplay by), Adam McKay (screenplay by)
Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling

 

 
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Posted by on December 24, 2018 in Big Business/Corporations, Drama, Finance, Global Economy, Philosophy, White Collar

 
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