Alex Gibney Doc Featuring Never-Before-Seen Police Interrogation Footage of Benjamin Netanyahu to Screen at TIFF (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the topic of a new feature documentary, “The Bibi Files” produced by Oscar winner Alex Gibney and directed by Alexis Bloom.
The two-hour docu, which will screen as work-in-progress at the Toronto Film Intl. Festival, features never-before-seen police interrogation footage of Netanyahu.
The recordings were made between 2016 and 2018 as part of a collection of evidence to determine if there should be an indictment against the Israeli Prime Minister on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
In 2023 the recordings were leaked to Gibney. They feature extensive interviews with Bibi, his wife Sara, his son Yair, the Prime Minister’s friends and associates as well as household employees. “These recordings shed light on Netanyahu’s character in a way that is unprecedented and extraordinary,” says Gibney. “They are powerful evidence of his venal and corrupt character and how that led us to where we are at right now.” Thom Powers, lead TIFF documentary programmer calls “The Bibi Files” “a work of first rate documentary journalism.
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