My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow

Four months before Russia starts a full-scale war in Ukraine, US filmmaker Julia Loktev, who was born in the Soviet Union, travels to Moscow to make a documentary about young female journalists being labeled by Putin’s regime as “foreign agents.” They work for media organizations including TV Rain, Russia’s last remaining independent television channel, under draconian restrictions and the constant threat of imprisonment—at any moment, the government could silence them with a fabricated charge. Several of their peers have already been murdered.