Released: 2014
Running Time: 114 mins
Awards
Academy Award
DGA Award
Independent Spirit Award
BAFTA Award
Emmy Award
Gotham Award
IDA Award
German Filmpreis
Cinema Eye Honors
Ridenhour Film Prize
American Cinema Editors
Film Critic Awards
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Funding
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CITIZENFOUR
CITIZENFOUR is a real-life international thriller that unfolds minute-by-minute. With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass, indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency.
CITIZENFOUR places viewers in the hotel room with Poitras, Greenwald and Snowden as they attempt to manage the media storm raging outside, forced to make quick decisions that will affect their lives and all around them.