
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (2025)
Overview: American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.
Release Date: 15 August 2025
Runtime: 5 hours and 24 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Language: Pусский
Company: Marminchilla, Jewish Story Partners, JustFilms / Ford Foundation and Catapult Film Fund
Status: Released