MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW New Trailer: Julia Loktev’s Defiant Documentary Arrives on MUBI This Friday
Last Fall, the Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) awarded the annual IFSN Advocate Award to Julia Loktev’s 5+ hour documentary, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air In Moscow. Set during the fall and winter of 2021-2022, the documentary follows a group of Moscow-based independent journalists as they face government crackdowns and surveillance during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It went on to win Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics before landing on the Oscars shortlist for Best Documentary Feature.
MUBI picked up the rights to the film following its Awards Season success, and will launch it on its streaming service this Friday. A new, gripping official trailer has now arrived.
Jordan Raup, IFSN co-founder and The Film Stage’s editor-in-chief, said about the film, “As the vital right of the freedom of press continues to be eroded across the world, Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow intimately and exhaustively captures the Putin regime’s calculated dismantling of what should be a universal certainty.”
As the official synopsis reads:
October–December 2021. Vladimir Putin has marked out Russian dissidents as “foreign agents.” Journalists at TV Rain, an independent news channel based in Moscow, have been labeled as such; so has the station. Investigating an authoritarian regime, the reporters contend with hostile conditions.
See the new trailer and poster below.
