Direction: Laura Poitras

Direction Laura Poitras

Cast Edward Snowden · Jacob Appelbaum · Julian Assange · Glenn Greenwald

Plot In January 2013, Laura Poitras started receiving anonymous encrypted e-mails from "Citizenfour," who claimed to have evidence of illegal covert surveillance programs run by the NSA in collaboration with other...

Direction Laura Poitras

Plot It follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.

Direction Laura Poitras

Plot Tells the story of two men whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the...

Direction Laura Poitras

Plot "My Country, My Country" follows the agonizing predicament and gradual descent of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spread...

Direction Laura Poitras

Cast Julian Assange · Sarah Harrison · Jacob Appelbaum

Plot The Academy Award-winning director of 'Citizenfour' turns her camera on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. 'Risk' continues Laura Poitras' examination of controversial figures who both risk and betray. With unparalleled access...

Direction Anthony Chen · Jafar Panahi · Laura Poitras · Dominga Sotomayor

Cast Zhang Yu · Zhou Dongyu

Plot Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles an unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and...

Direction Laura Poitras

Cast Pierre Chanel Affognon · Alaa Al-Siddiq · Carmen Aristegui · Yahya Assiri

Plot A visual study of the investigation by Forensic Architecture into the Israeli cyberweapons manufacturer NSO Group and the use of its Pegasus malware to target journalists and human rights defenders...

Direction Erik Anderson · Paul Baker · Nathaniel Dorsky · Kurt Easterwood

Plot Renga is a linked-verse form of Japanese poetry that, though still practiced today, reached its peak between the 13th and 16th centuries. It is characterized by being a group composition,...

Direction Linda Goode Bryant · Laura Poitras

Cast Nina Masseria · Floyd Goode · Josephine Goode · Shango Baba Olugbala

Plot "Flag Wars" is a cinema verite documentary that follows the conflicts that arise when gay white professionals move into a black working-class neighborhood. Filmed over a four years in Columbus,...

Direction Laura Poitras

Plot Composed of images filmed at Ground Zero in September 2001, two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. The soundtrack is composed of the National Anthem recorded in October 2001 at the...

Direction Laura Poitras

Plot This is the second channel of Laura Poitras’s double video installation. It is comprised of United States military footage of interrogations, conducted shortly after 9/11, with two U.S. prisoners in...

Direction Henrik Moltke · Laura Poitras

Plot A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to TITANPOINTE, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents,...