My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
- Julia Loktev
- USA
- 2024
323 min
Russian
English
6
Artdoc rating
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Moscow, winter 2021: At TV Rain, the only remaining independent channel, young journalists have been branded “foreign agents”— targeted for surveillance or worse, and required to tag their reporting with a disclaimer that they are serving foreign powers. Regardless: Ksyusha furiously produces and edits stories to distract herself from her fellow-journalist fiancé’s imprisonment; Anya hosts everyday heroes of resistance on her interview show, while shielding both her sanity and her young daughter from the regime’s relentless “fuckery”; Sonya produces the “Hi, You’re a Foreign Agent” podcast at her kitchen table while beholding her empty living room (why buy a sofa when who knows what will happen to her?); Alesya fends off anxiety that her office has been bugged, while hiding her relationship with her girlfriend from her traditional mother. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is just weeks away, as these Gen-Z heroines confront propagandist absurdity and personal endangerment, fighting for the soul of a country they love to the bitter end. An extraordinary historic record and an immersive and intimate inside view of the opposition in an authoritarian society, which becomes all the more globally relevant every day.
Authors
Film crew
- Director
- Julia Loktev
- Operator
- Julia Loktev
- Producer
- Julia Loktev
- Composer
- Sami Buccella
MOVIE ABOUT
- Theme
- Propaganda
- Country
- USA
- Film studio
- Marminchilla
- Festivals
- Artdocfest 2025
- Languages
- Russian
- Subtitles
- English
Tags
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