MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service and production company will bring the acclaimed, award-winning documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow exclusively to MUBI globally (excluding Russia & Belarus) on April 3, 2026. Its highly anticipated follow up, My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile will also premiere exclusively on MUBI later this year.
Directed and produced by Soviet-born American filmmaker Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day Night) My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow and universally hailed as a masterful cinematic achievement, the film had its world premiere at New York Film Festival and its international premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025.
In My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, what begins as an intimate portrait of Russian independent journalists facing persecution by Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia starts a full-scale war in Ukraine and the journalists are all forced into exile. The film offers a front row seat to how authoritarianism impacts the lives of those who resist, which becomes all the more globally relevant every day. The documentary follows Alesya Marokhovskaya, Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Irina Dolinina, Ksenia Mironova, Olga Churakova and Sonya Groysman.
Both parts are directed, produced, and shot as a one-woman crew by Loktev with protagonist and co-director Anna Nemzer, and co-edited by Loktev and long-time collaborator Michael Taylor, ACE (The Farewell). Riva Marker is a consulting producer.
MUBI WILL RELEASE MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS:
PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW ON APRIL 3, 2026
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