My Undesirable Friends Part I - Last Air in Moscow

One of the most acclaimed documentaries of 2025 is coming to the Circle for a special two-day screening event in January. See the frontrunner for Best Documentary at the Oscars "My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow" across Sat 1/17 and Sun 1/18. Tickets on sale now, $13 members, $15 non-members.

Notice: Like many venues screening this film, Circle Cinema has opted to split the full 5.5hr runtime over two screening days. Only one ticket is needed and includes admission to chapters 1-3 on Sat 1/17 followed by Chapters 4-5 on Sun 1/18.

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Sat 1/17: Screening 3:30pm-7pm, see the first three chapters of the film with an included 10min intermission.

Sun 1/18: Screening 3:30-5:35pm, see the conclusion of the film. Does not include an intermission.

323min (198min Chapters 1-3, 125min Chapters 4-5) - Doc - Not Rated - Russian

Soviet-born American filmmaker Julia Loktev ("The Loneliest Planet," "Day Night Day Night") came to Moscow in 2021 to make a film about independent journalists being declared “foreign agents” by Putin’s regime — as it turns out, just four months before Russia started a full-scale war in Ukraine. With her friend Anna Nemzer, a talk show host at TV Rain, Russia’s last remaining independent news channel, Loktev brings us into a community of sharp, warm and funny young women speaking truth to power as they face increasing threats. Loktev filmed in Moscow during the first week of the full-scale invasion, as the journalists tried to counter Russian propaganda and report the truth on the war, until all independent media was shut down and they were forced to flee the country.

Structured in five chapters, feeling like a cross between a Russian novel and a reality show about frighteningly real reality, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary historic record of a country on the verge of fascism and an immersive and intimate inside view of the opposition in an authoritarian society, which becomes all the more globally relevant every day.