My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025)

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.

Released

2025-08-15

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

324 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Julia Loktev

TMDB rating

7.2/10 from 12 votes