Falciani’s Tax Bomb, Polar Star Films’ latest documentary about the recent Swiss Leaks story, will world premiere on May 9th at dok.fest Munich. The film has also been chosen for the opening night screening of this year’s DocsBarcelona edition making this the first time that the festival opens with a Catalan coproduction.

The documentary feature film, co-produced between Polar Star Films (Barcelona) and Gebrueder Beetz (Berlin) for several international broadcasters, analyzes the problem of tax evasion and fraud through the story of Hervé Falciani, the IT engineer who leaked the names of 130,000 secret accounts from HSBC Geneva violently rocking international politics and the global banking system.

Award-winning director Ben Lewis, (Google and the World Brain, Polar Star Films 2013), returns with an exceptional portrait of Falciani and his list, which includes the names of celebrities and international figures. , Direct access to Hervé Falciani, the story of his persecution by the Swiss authorities, interviews with all the key players across Europe and America and playful animation chart the complete story of a banking scandal on a scale never seen before. Falciani’s Tax Bomb is co-produced with SWR / ARD (in cooperation with ARTE, Germany), TVE, TVC, RTS and SRF, in collaboration with DR, SVT, TG4, YLE, with support from NRW, Creative Europe – Media and ICEC (Spain).

See Falciani’s Tax Bomb official trailer.

See DocsBarcelona 2015 programme.

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