Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, a 1967 graduate of Cheltenham High School, has been featured in a full-length documentary titled “The Bibi Files.”

The film premiered Monday night at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and includes never-before-seen leaked footage of the criminal investigation conducted before Netanyahu’s trials. It includes interviews with Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and his son Yair, among others, dating back to 2016-2018.

“People are dying every day, and we wanted to make a statement with this film,” Oscar-winning producer Alex Gibney said in a Q&A after the screening. “For a lot of Americans, the war goes on and on and on. And a lot of people are wondering ‘Why does it continue?’ And I think one of the reasons for taking this film on is to explain a lot of the events that we now see through the corruption, the moral corruption, of this one individual.”

According to The Times of Israel, the documentary’s central focus is Netanyahu’s “protracted legal quagmire involving three corruption cases that have dogged him, in and out of the courts, for much of the past decade. In 2019, following years of police investigation of suspected criminal malfeasance, Netanyahu was charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, all of which he has vehemently denied.”

According to The Guardian, Netanyahu attempted to block the film’s screening, which Israeli courts rejected.

You can read a full description of the documentary on TIFF’s website.

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Screengrab: TIFF.net