My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile
Directed by Julia Loktev
A group of Russian independent journalists flee the country and navigate life in exile after the invasion of Ukraine, focusing on their dispersed lives and ongoing struggle for truth across different nations. While Part I documented their lives in Moscow facing mounting pressure from the Putin regime, Part II chronicles their forced displacement and new realities in various countries, continuing their mission… From TMDB
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60 of 91 · most liked firstMy best movie of the year may be the 5 1/2 hour doc My Undesirable Friends. Not streaming, find a rare screening if you can. Important to see it all at once. My friends and I were literally at times on edge of our seats. Young Russian journalists, living their own lives and a black mirror of ours.
unlabelledView post →BEST NON-FICTION FILM: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
unlabelledView post →Best Nonfiction Film: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (56 points) Runners-up: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR (22 points) ORWELL: 2+2=5 (18 points)
unlabelledView post →MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW is the documentary of the year, maybe the movie of the year. For @rollingstone.com, I spoke to filmmaker Julia Loktev, who in 2021 went to Russia to chronicle young independent journalists, only to witness Putin's crackdown in horrifying real time.
unlabelledView post →NYC: see MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS, which has been held over for weeks at Film Forum due to demand but has to end this week. Shows the regime in Russia taking apart free speech in a matter of months, starting with declaring independent journalists to be "foreign agents": www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/m...
unlabelledView post →oh, and brass tacks: My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow, is now playing at New York's Film Forum, with opening weekend Q&As with the director and subjects. If you can, see it now. If you can't, tell your local cinema to book it.
unlabelledView post →New Yorkers: One of the best things you'll see all year. Everyone else: I'm praying it comes to you ASAP. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS — PART 1: LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, now playing at Film Forum and hopefully a whole lot of other places soon www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
unlabelledView post →On Friday, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS comes to Mubi. Last summer, I had a long conversation with director Julia Loktev about the film and the lessons she learned about authoritarianism. There are a couple quotes in here I think about all the time.
unlabelledView post →This is just a PSA that "My Undesirable Friends" -- the movie about the Russian journalists at TV Rain before and after the Ukraine War -- is now on Mubi and is (a) excellent; (b) broken neatly into five hourlong installments if you find "a limited series" less daunting than "a 5 hour documentary".
unlabelledView post →MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART 1 - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (2024) Streaming: April 3, 2026 MUBI #MyUndesirableFriendsPart1 #LastAirInMoscow whentostream.com/my-undesirab...
unlabelledView post →The director of My Undesirable Friends, a documentary about Russia’s crackdown on journalists before the invasion of Ukraine, talks about making her epic five-hour film and why it’s a warning for the U.S. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
unlabelledView post →Good week for thinking big thoughts. The 3rd movie on my list is "My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile" #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social are thrilled to have the chance to talk about the blistering documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →My Undesirable Friends might be the most impressive doc project of the decade. Part I watched a country close in on its dissidents. Part II—Exile watches them keep going www.avclub.com/my-undesirab...
unlabelledView post →INSIDE A POLICE STATE ‘THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO LIVE UNDER AUTHORITARIANISM’ The director of My Undesirable Friends, a documentary about Russia’s crackdown on journalists before the invasion of Ukraine, talks about making her epic five-hour film and why www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
unlabelledView post →I had an enlightening chat with Julia Loktev about her extraordinary film MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS. inreviewonline.com/2025/08/14/n...
unlabelledView post →a heads-up to anyone planning facetime with me in the next couple of weeks that My Undesirable Friends has replaced Eddington as the movie which I will talk about at length whether you show any interest in it or not
unlabelledView post →The second installment of MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS is a very different film than the first. And a must-see.
unlabelledView post →‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile’ Review: An Enormous, Riveting Documentary Sequel Following Reporters on the Run #Venezia83 variety.com/2026/film/ne...
unlabelledView post →The No. 1 Movie of 2025, Part II: Julia Loktev's My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow. A five-hour document of the struggle against authoritarian repression that's also a superlative hangout movie, a reminder of how much social change takes place over dinner with friends.
unlabelledView post →The best film of the year is finally coming to Los Angeles. Julia Loktev's extraordinary documentary MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS will be playing at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social Los Feliz 3 on Saturday, November 8. I'll be moderating a Q&A with filmmaker Julia Loktev and journalist Ksenia Mironova.
unlabelledView post →Julia Loktev's MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II – EXILE opens October 9 only at Film Forum. Watch the new trailer below now!
unlabelledView post →Another three-movie week. R-to-L: Best modern satire // a very relevant documentary about journalistic oppression (among other things) in Russia // one of the UK's funniest! It was a busy week so I'm not surprised. My Undesirable Friends is 5 hours, I think it should count as 2. #LetterboxdFriday
unlabelledView post →Oh, wow, New York: the ABSOLUTELY UNMISSABLE doc “My Undesirable Friends” is coming to Film Forum August 15. (Technically it’s the first half.) You must make a point of seeing it. Yes I know it’s long. filmforum.org/film/my-unde...
unlabelledView post →Learn about the power of independent journalism through "My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile," a documentary about dissident Russian journalists, which opens at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social tomorrow. Tickets:
unlabelledView post →This #Oscars-shortlisted 5.5h doc about the fall of Russian freedom of speech has taken hold of my last few days. The 1st half plays out like a chilling retrace of events developing in the US. The 2nd half is a heartbreaking warning. #MyUndesirableFriends #FilmSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCyx...
unlabelledView post →I don't mean to jump the gun here, but I'm only 30 min into MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS and this seems like the most important film of the year. This is the blueprint. This is where Trump wants to take us.
unlabelledView post →MUBI has acquired My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, and the upcoming sequel My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile. Part 1 was the best film I saw in 2025. It's almost five and a half hours long, but there's not a moment wasted. Highly recommend.
unlabelledView post →For my 300th episode of THE LAST THING I SAW, I went with my all-too-topical interview with all-star Julia Loktev about her great movie about independent Russian journalists MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I--LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. Int'l premiere #Berlinale2025 soundcloud.com/the-last-thi...
unlabelledView post →A movie of great documentary first-watches: Daguerréotypes, The History of Concrete, The Great Satan, NAZA, My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.
unlabelledView post →Here are some of my 4+ hour theatrical experiences. Berlin Alexanderplatz (894) Out 1 (773) Dekalog (572) Satantango (432) War and Peace (431) Hitler: A Film From Germany (412) Carlos (339) My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (324) 1900 (317) [2X, BAY-BEE] Smoking/No Smoking (280)
unlabelledView post →Three Russia-themed anti-war films shortlisted for Oscars. > Paris (France) (AFP) – Three films about Russian anti-Kremlin journalists and activists under President Vladimir Putin have been shortlisted for the Oscars, in what critics said Wednesday sent a clear anti-war, anti-authoritarian message. > David Borenstein's "Mr Nobody Against Putin", based on footage smuggled out of Russia, and "My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow", by US filmmaker Julia Loktev, have been…
unlabelledView post →We are thrilled to announce Julia Loktev’s essential documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow as the recipient of the 2025 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award.
unlabelledView post →Spoke with Julia Loktev about My Undesirable Friends, her film on Russia’s last independent newsroom. “All these journalists were being targeted and named foreign agents… forced to mark themselves as other, and told ‘they’re not one of us.’” @etannechin.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/life/2025-08...
unlabelledView post →Trailer for Julia Loktev’s MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW — www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCyx... @msicism.bsky.social’s endorsement has prompted me to put this one at the top of my to-see list — letterboxd.com/msicism/film...
unlabelledView post →Here's mine! OUT 1 (743m) HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY (410m) MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART 1 - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (324m) THE MOVIE ORGY (276m) MYSTERIES OF LISBON (266m) KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR (254m)
unlabelledView post →Bummed to see Loktev’s film end its awards season run. This is a good film and will probably win the Oscar as well but My Undesirable Friends is a masterpiece.
unlabelledView post →Attention Toronto film nerds: the Hot Docs cinema is showing My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow (5 and a half hours) on Saturday Feb 7 youtu.be/rCyxXOSiRyY?...
unlabelledView post →Snubbing Jafar Panahi and "It Was Just an Accident" in Best Picture and Best Director is rough. So is snubbing "My Undesirable Friends" in Best Documentary (grrrrr). "F1: The Movie" in Best Picture... huh? Happy about the love for "The Secret Agent." #filmsky
unlabelledView post →And last but least: Best Non-Fiction Film is Julia Loktev's monumental "My Undesirable Friends - Part 1." "The Perfect Neighbor" and Raoul Peck's "Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5" are 2nd and 3rd. That's it for another year! Thanks to all my critical colleagues for their perspicacity. @nsfc.bsky.social #nsfc
unlabelledView post →I just spent 6 hours today at the Film Forum watching the best documentary of the moment, year, century, what have you got. My Undesirable Friends is powerful stuff, a historical record of recent Russian history that feels like visit from Dickens’ future ghost to us in the US.
unlabelledView post →Happy to see that Julia Loktev, one of my fav Dirs to go to NYU with me, has a new film. Not so happy how relevant it is. "This Is What It Looks Like to Live Under Authoritarianism The director of My Undesirable Friends, a doc about Russia’s crackdown on journalists before the invasion of Ukraine"
unlabelledView post →In honor of its New York Film Festival screening, here's my review of MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE, Julia Loktev's exceptional follow-up to the best movie of last year.
unlabelledView post →After seeing 2025's most important film, "My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow," I ordered a T-shirt to support TV Rain, the Russian-language network fighting Putin's campaign to stamp out independent media. Trump's tariffs delayed shipping for months. Just arrived! LET'S DO IT.
unlabelledView post →Went to a 6 hour documentary tonight. It was film fest level. My Undesirable Friends.
unlabelledView post →The Sparrow in the Chimney, My Undesirable Friends, and All That’s Left of You are among @jaredmobarak.com's top 10 films of 2025:
unlabelledView post →NYC! For people who missed the opportunity to see My Undesirable Friends, Part 1 at Film Forum, it will be playing Jan 12-13 at the Metrograph! With intro and Q&A featuring protagonist Ksenia Morinova metrograph.com/film/?vista_... #MyUndesirableFriends #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →I highly recommend MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS, which is showing at Film Forum this week: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/m...
unlabelledView post →Clearly we should all go see My Undesirable Friends as soon as possible, but in the meantime a reminder that Julia Loktev’s previous movie, The Loneliest Planet, is also v good
unlabelledView post →For paid subscribers to the Spliced Personality Substack, my second dispatch from the New York Film Festival includes reviews of PAPER TIGER, GODZILLA MINUS ZERO and MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE.
unlabelledView post →‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II—Exile’: Vladimir Putin’s ‘War Crimes’ Exposed in Epic New Film www2.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/my-...
unlabelledView post →(Mostly stellar) Reviews are in from the Venice premiere of Julia Loktev’s documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile. www.metacritic.com/movie/my-und... “The film’s chilling tapestry is interwoven with its subjects’ gallows humor.” - Siddhant Adlakha, Variety
unlabelledView post →A little Venice Film Festival preview with Alex Gibney on Musk and Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends. Geopolitics might draw more focus than the movie stars and awards hopefuls this year. apnews.com/article/2026...
unlabelledView post →There’s a point at which a great movie can outstay its welcome, but also I have happily sat through My Undesirable Friends, Satantango, and even Out 1 in theaters and will always jump at the opportunity to see something like those in the cinema again.
unlabelledView post →My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025, dir Julia Loktev). 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.…
unlabelledView post →My Undesirable Friends MUST SEE MOVIE
unlabelledView post →To greater and lesser degrees. I have loved all of Julia Loktev’s previous features, fiction and non-fiction, and my hottest possible take about MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS is that it’s a good 5-hour movie that could have been a great 2-1/2 or 3-hour movie.
unlabelledView post →Well ok suit yourself. . . . Also looking forward to The Naked Gun -- and the Russian documentary My Undesirable Friends (showing at Film Forum). . . . Also saw the 2019 Polanski film about the Dreyfus Affair - which was solid.
unlabelledView post →The director of My Undesirable Friends, a documentary about Russia’s crackdown on journalists before the invasion of Ukraine, talks about making her epic five-hour film and why it’s a warning for the U.S. apple.news/A3CcfOyv0QqO...
unlabelledView post →CRITIC'S PICK! ‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: What Is Truth? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/m... Opens tomorrow at Film Forum: buff.ly/kGrbbJU
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