My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow

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.

Production Companies

Marminchilla

Jewish Story Partners

JustFilms / Ford FoundationCatapult Film Fund