My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow
First screened in December 2025

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Director: Julia Loktev. Documentary about dissident Russian journalists, most of them women, struggling to resist Putin's language, laws, and actions in the months preceding the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Principal subjects include Anna Nemzer, Sonya Groysman, Alesya Marokhovskaya, Irina Dolinina, Ksenia Mironova, Olga Churakova, Elena Kostyuchenko, Eduard Burmistrov, Galina Arapova, Tikhon Dzyadko, Ekaterina Kotrikadze, Valeria Ratnikova. Screenplay: Julia Loktev.

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Photo © 2024 Marminchilla, © 2025 Argot Pictures

In Brief: Exhaustive, engaging chronicle of one viselike authoritarian regime, and a bellwether about others.

VOR: ⑤  Real-time footage of irreplaceable value and artful assembly, taken in spaces where few have access. Extraordinary courage by all involved.

Grade: A

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Awards:
	National Society of Film Critics: Best Nonfiction Film
	New York Film Critics Circle: Best Non-Fiction Film
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

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