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Twenty Films To Look Forward To In 2015

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Citizenfour

Director: Laura Poitras

Starring: Edward Snowden

Released: February 12

In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras got a mysterious series of encrypted emails from a senior US intelligence employee who was concerned about government abuse of national security. He called himself ‘Citizenfour’. The whistleblower was Edward Snowden, of course – and Poitras’s documentary, filmed in Hong Kong with journalist Glenn Greenwald, offers a riveting insight into the person whose revelations have effectively made him a stateless fugitive.

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