Overview
- Watermelon Pictures unveiled the trailer as the film readies a December 19 theatrical opening in the U.K. and Ireland, with a U.S. rollout planned for early 2026.
- The Cannes-premiering documentary won the L’Œil d’or jury prize and the festival’s Golden Globe for documentary.
- Assange is now free after pleading guilty to one Espionage Act count in a U.S. deal that saw 17 other counts dropped and no additional prison time sought.
- Jarecki says the film features previously unseen material, much of it from Ecuadorian embassy CCTV, alongside interviews with Julian and Stella Assange, Edward Snowden, Naomi Klein, Pamela Anderson, Daniel Ellsberg, Jen Robinson, Nils Melzer, Rafael Correa and Sigurdur Thordarson.
- The director alleges new evidence of crimes by U.S. officials and a yearslong campaign costing about $6 billion, and says production moved to Berlin with airgapped editing as the team documented security incidents tied to a Spanish illegal espionage case.