For the deeply likable Ms. Falco, the role is a turnabout in which she exposes the underside of her friendliness: a repugnant attitude of disingenuous good will.
"You have beautiful eyes," she declares "My Father, the Genius," this year's grand jury prize documentary winner, is a haunted, slightly accusatory film by Lucia Small in which she exposes her father's claims of architectural brilliance to fresh air and finds that they deteriorate.
He gained attention for a series of paintings of his first wife, Kitty Garman, including a portrait titled "Girl with a White Dog," in which she exposes a breast while a canine dozes on her lap.
But she is tempted by the job because she has been bruised by the level of public attack to which she was exposed at the BBC.
She describes growing up in Nigeria, eager to be a good Christian girl, but angry at the sexist attitudes to which she was exposed.
Yet it is born into an environment similar to its mother's, which contains all the potential microbial invaders to which she is exposed.
For a young girl growing up in poverty, puberty not only brings physical and psychological changes, it marks the point at which she is exposed to multiple vulnerabilities: she is often forced into early marriage, faces an increased risk of sexual violence and is denied the opportunity to continue her education.
Her work on the album drew on the punk music of The Clash and music from genres such as Britpop and electroclash, to which she was exposed during her time studying at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Woman's reproductive outcomes (miscarriage, gestational age, offspring birthweight, perinatal mortality and morbidity) are affected both by her socioeconomic circumstances at the time of pregnancy and the circumstances to which she was exposed to as a child [1].
Asma's story is no less inspiring or less heart-breaking - not only for the cruelty to which she was exposed, but also for her bravery and positive response in the face of untold hardships.
