Julia Loktev releases “My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile,” a nearly six-hour documentary that follows Russian journalists as they flee Russia. Multiple outlets describe the film’s opening as tense and urgent, with some journalists shown trying to leave quickly, filming on smartphones and traveling with limited belongings while facing uncertainty about border delays and their immediate next steps.
The film is presented as the second part of Loktev’s portrait of independent Russian journalists, developed over about five years. One outlet frames the project as culminating this installment, with the first part focusing on independent journalists in Moscow. Other coverage emphasizes that the documentary captures the journalists’ lives after they left the country, in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and notes that the new film opens in select theaters.
