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.

Cast

Anna Nemzer

Ksenia Mironova

Sofya Groysman

Olga Churakova

Irina Dolinina

Alesya Marokhovskaya

Elena Kostyuchenko

Crew

Julia Loktev

Director

Julia Loktev

Editor

Julia Loktev

Director of Photography

Julia Loktev

Producer

Michael Taylor

Editor

Sami Buccella

Original Music Composer

Leslie Shatz

Sound Designer

Julia Loktev

Writer

Clips & Videos

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW | Official Trailer | On MUBI April 3

MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW Trailer

Trailer | My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow | Julia Loktev

"My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow" | Trailer | Berlinale 2025

Julia Loktev and Journalists on My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow