Tickets $15. American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union and now based in the U.S., returned to Moscow in 2021 to document the growing crackdown on independent journalism in Putin’s Russia. Months later, the country invaded Ukraine. What began as a vérité portrait of young reporters labeled “foreign agents” suddenly became a frontline chronicle of a nation sliding into war, repression, and exile.
Told across five chapters, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow is an intimate, unflinching record of a community fighting to tell the truth as the ground shifts beneath them. Loktev’s camera captures the urgency, fear, humor, and resilience of journalists fighting Putin’s regime —offering a front row seat to how authoritarianism works and the lives of those who resist, which becomes more and more relevant both globally and in the U.S. every day.
