Explosive Oscar-Contending Documentary ‘The Bibi Files’ Trains Lens On Netanyahu Corruption Allegations, As Middle East Wars Hang In The Balance – The Backstory
deadline.comAt every stage of release, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary The Bibi Files has faced tremendous challenges – obstacles that might have derailed filmmakers without the fortitude of director Alexis Bloom and producer Alex Gibney.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, whose reputation takes a beating in the film, tried to block its unofficial world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last September.
An Israeli court rejected his bid. “It wasn’t surprising that [Netanyahu] had some kind of last-ditch attempt to stop the film, even though logically I don’t know how he thought that was possible,” Bloom says in a new interview for Deadline’s The Backstory. “Clearly, the courts in Israel don’t have any say over the courts in Canada.
They don’t have jurisdiction over Canadians. So, on the one level I thought, wow, that wasn’t smart, because what was the legal basis for that?
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