on June 9, Snowden’s identity is made public at his request. As media outlets begin to discover his location at the, Snowden moves into Poitras’ room in an attempt to elude phone calls made to his room. Facing potential and prosecution in the United States, Snowden schedules a meeting with the and applies for refugee status. After Poitras believes she is being followed, she leaves Hong Kong for.Citizenfour 2014 full Movie
On June 21, the US government requests the Hong Kong government extradite Snowden. Snowden manages to depart from Hong Kong, but his US passport is cancelled before he can connect to , stranding him in the in for 40 days. On August 1, 2013, the Russian government grants Snowden temporary for a period of one year.[8] Meanwhile, Greenwald returns to his home in and speaks publicly about United States’ utilization of NSA programs for foreign surveillance. Greenwald and Poitras maintain a correspondence wherein they both express reluctance to return to the United States.Throughout, the film offers smaller vignettes that precede and follow Snowden’s Hong Kong interviews, including speaking about NSA programs, and eventually testifying before the regarding .The film closes with Greenwald, Snowden and Poitras meeting once again, this time in Russia. Greenwald and Snowden discuss new emerging details on US intelligence programs, careful to only write down and not speak critical pieces of information. Greenwald tears these documents creating a pile of scraps, before slowly removing them from the table.
By 2012, Poitras had begun work on the third film in her 9/11 trilogy (2006) and (2010)), which she intended to focus broadly on the topic of domestic for which she interviewed Greenwald, Binney, and Appelbaum.[17] She was first contacted by Snowden in January 2013 after he was unable to establish encrypted communications with Greenwald.She flew to Hong Kong in late May 2013, where over the course of eight days she filmed Snowden in his hotel room[17] at the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong. Later, she traveled to Moscow where she filmed a second interview with Snowden conducted by Greenwald.