My Undesirable Friends watch order

There are 2 My Undesirable Friends films, about 5.4 hours in total. The first was released in 2025, the latest in 2026. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.

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.

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   My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2025)

   15 Aug 2025 · 324 min

   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.

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   My Undesirable Friends: Part II—Exile (2026)

   9 Oct 2026

   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 t

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