Risk

Risk (2017) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM — Laura Poitras spent years inside Julian Assange's inner circle, closer than any filmmaker had gotten before.

Poitras had already won an Oscar for Citizenfour. Here she follows Assange through embassy lockdowns, legal battles with Amal Clooney arguing his defence, and the world of his closest allies — Sarah Harrison, Jacob Appelbaum, Daniel Ellsberg. The longer she stayed, the more the picture complicated. Then she stopped being just the camera.

Poitras appears in her own film. That moment reframes everything that came before: this is not a portrait of Assange but a study of what documenting someone powerful actually costs when access depends on trust. Stream Risk on iFILM.