My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile
In the expansive and equally intimate second chapter of her monumental documentary, Julia Loktev traces the paths of a network of fearlessly outspoken broadcast journalists endangered for dissent against the Putin regime across Europe and even farther afield. With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine now a bitter reality, journalists live and continue to work, strengthening intimacies even while the ground beneath them shifts and fragments.
Presented with two fifteen-minute intermissions.
Tickets: $15 (members), $20 (nonmembers)
“Grand in scale but entirely intimate in scope, what [Loktev has] achieved here is a landmark work that will go down as one of the boldest documentary achievements of the 21st century”
— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire
“The six unpredictable, twisting hours of My Undesirable Friends Part II: Exile memorializes the deeply human spirit coursing through those who tirelessly fight to expose this autocratic era’s cruelties.”
— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Q&A with filmmaker 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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