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Cleaners (2019)

Cleaners poster
Directed by
Glenn Barit
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
Philippines
Runtime
1h 18m
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The movie is about a group of high school students in the Philippines who are assigned to clean their classrooms after school. It follows their lives and school activities during the 2007-2008 academic year.

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What happens

Cleaners is a 2019 Philippine experimental adult animated coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Glenn Barit in his directorial debut. The film follows a group of high school students assigned as end-of-day classroom cleaners and their experiences surrounding various school activities during the 2007-2008 Philippine academic year in Tuguegarao, Cagayan. Cleaners premiered on 15 October 2019 at the QCinema International Film Festival, which was a part of the Asian Next Wave Competition, and received a limited theatrical release in Singapore on 10 April 2021 through the Asian Film Archive. Since its release, Cleaners has developed a cult following. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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