MUBI UNVEILS NEW CLIP & ANNOUNCES STREAMING RELEASE DATE FOR JULIA LOKTEV’S DOCUMENTARY FILM MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
-DIRECTED BY JULIA LOKTEV
Best Documentary, New York Film Critics Circle
Best Documentary, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Best Documentary, Gotham Awards
Best Documentary, 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards
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EXCLUSIVELY ON MUBI 3 APRIL 2026
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“A staggering portrait of Russian journalists in dissent” – The New Yorker
“Brilliant, riveting, vital, devastating.” – The New York Times
“Astonishing… plays out like a thriller” – The Guardian
“Captures dark times with some of the funniest people you’d ever hope to have as sisters-in-arms. Defiant, emotional and life-affirming” – Los Angeles Times
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 3 April 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 3 APRIL 2026
ABOUT JULIA LOKTEV
Julia Loktev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to the U.S. at age 9. She has made both fiction and documentary. THE LONELIEST PLANET starring Gael Garcia Bernal, screened at the New York Film Festival, received the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival, nominations for Best Director at Independent Spirit Awards, and Best Feature at Gotham Awards, and was chosen by Indiewire as one of the “100 Best Films of Last Decade.” DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight, received two Gotham Awards nominations, and earned the Someone to Watch Award at Independent Spirit Awards. Her documentary MOMENT OF IMPACT won the Sundance Film Festival Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Reél, screened in New Directors/New Films at MoMA, and was an Independent Spirit Awards Truer Than Fiction nominee. Julia is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emerging Icons Award from the George Eastman Museum.
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