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WATCHING THE PAIN OF OTHERS
Chloé Galibert-Lainé - 31 mins | France , 2019
In this deeply personal video diary, a young researcher tries to make sense of her fascination for the film "The Pain of Others" by Penny Lane. A deep dive into the discomforting world of YouTube and online conspiracies, that challenges traditional notions of what documentary cinema is, or should be.
"One of the best films ever made about watching a documentary" (David Schwartz, Chief Curator at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York)
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ALL MONSTERS ARE HUMAN
Helen Spooner & Hugh Davies - 21 mins | UK/Azerbaijan, 2019
In the wake of a vicious anti-LGBT government crackdown in Azerbaijan in September 2017, this documentary film follows the plight of three young LGBT Azeris fearing for their lives. On a journey from Istanbul to Baku, the filmmakers combine animation and video footage to reveal stories of extortion, torture and murder, and discover that for those who have managed to escape, persecution has followed them.
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Competition British Documentary
Helen Spooner & Hugh Davies

Helen is an award-winning producer, with experience working in hostile environments and with sensitive topics and vulnerable contributors. She has worked for major international broadcasters on topics as broad as terrorism, corruption, pedophilia and sexual slavery. She was recently selected by the BBC onto the BBC New Directors Scheme, where she will have the opportunity to direct her first long form documentary for the BBC in the near future. The film she made for the BBC in 2018 (Face to Face with ISIS) was awarded a One World Media award in the same year.
Hugh Davies is a producer at the London-based documentary production company Insight TWI. He has worked on current affairs, observational, historical and investigative programmes for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. He is currently producing a three-part series for the BBC, involving access to a number of UK police forces and criminal trials across a three year period.