The Truth Matters In The Bibi Files UK Trailer

Dogwoof has released the UK Trailer for Alexis Bloom‘s upcoming documentary The Bibi FIles.

The film made it’s world premiere at Toronto Film Festival and the Israeli government tried to block the screenings, why? It’s all about Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister.

The Bibi Files uses never-seen-before interrogation footage. The investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. A sense of entitlement leading to corruption, and the unwillingness to give up power. Will he fall?

Powerful stuff and with the political tensions in the Middle East, Bloom’s documentary probably one of the last thing Netanyahu wants.

Jigsaw Productions’ The Bibi Files, from director Alexis Bloom (“Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes”) and Oscar-winning producer Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”), is a searing documentary focused on high-level familial corruption, and the disastrous lengths a political leader will go to escape accountability. This is a film about a man singularly focused on his own political survival in a region beset by war.

The filmmakers were leaked damning, never-before-seen footage police interrogation videos of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his family, his closest associates, and benefactors as part of a corruption investigation. The leaked footage indicates a steady and continuous pattern of lavish gift-giving and quid pro quo favours in the media and business worlds. The interrogation videos are interwoven with archival footage that show Netanyahu’s rise to power, and how his nearly 30-year rule as Prime Minister has divided the state of Israel.

Interspersed throughout are interviews with prominent journalists, Israeli statesmen, Netanyahu associates, and longtime friends, whose observations and anecdotes paint a chilling portrait of a leader who, in his effort to avoid justice has allied himself with radical right-wing extremists. Netanyahu’s fixation on his entitlement to remain Prime Minister has, in this way, led to political decisions that have endangered Israel’s safety, and destroyed her standing as a democracy in the Middle East.

The parallels between Netanyahu’s rule and the threats posed by autocrats and extremists in other prominent democracies are clear.

The Bibi Files will be released in UK and Irish cinemas and On Demand from 13th December.