My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow

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 Putins Russiajust months, as it turned out, before the countrys invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktevs film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.