KILLING ANNA

(no clip available yet - currently festival only - general release pending)

 

KILLING ANNA – 90 Min – Keo / Dogwoof / Film Four – Director: Sam Benstead - World Premiere CPH DOX

Sam Benstead / United Kingdom / 2026 / 76 min

https://cphdox.dk/film/killing-anna/

An exiled academic hunts a war criminal online - only to discover how dangerous it is to get close enough to expose the truth.

A haunting video from Syria sets off a chilling digital manhunt. An exiled academic creates a fake identity- Anna - to track down a war criminal, infiltrating his world through Facebook and turning the tools of connection into weapons of exposure. As she draws closer, probing his ego and conscience, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Killing Anna is a tense psychological thriller about courage, deception, and the dangerous cost of getting too close to the truth.

I’ve always loved to cut - and I always will. That passion has driven me to dedicate over 30 years to the craft of editing.

In that time, I’ve been honored with an Emmy, a Grierson Award, an RTS Award, a Broadcast Award, and a Critics Choice Award.

My work includes four BAFTA-nominated documentaries, an RTS-nominated documentary series, and eight Grierson-nominated films across five different categories.

I specialise in editing imaginative, forward-thinking films - projects that have earned critical acclaim and been broadcast by Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, Sky Documentaries, BBC, Channel 4, and ITV.

For me - there’s something deeply creative about taking existing material, carving it up, and reshaping it into something entirely new. That transformation - turning the raw into the remarkable - is where my imagination thrives.

“Once you unleash a film out of its trap, it should have an unstoppable gravitational force to it.”

The Cutter