Snowden calls ‘Citizenfour’ an incredible film

Edward Snowden, Citizenfour director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald have had a kind of reunion, their first time publicly together since clandestinely meeting in a Hong Kong hotel in 2013.

Mr. Snowden appeared on video link from Russia on Thursday. The three sat for a talk conducted by The New York Times . They spoke about the Oscar-nominated documentary, which chronicles Mr. Snowden’s leak of National Security Agency documents.

Mr. Snowden said though he initially refused Ms. Poitras’ wish to film their encounter she eventually convinced him. He calls the film “incredible.”