MUBI has set a streaming premiere date for the epic documentary MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART 1 – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, which will launch on their platform on April 3rd, 2026. The film world premiered in the Main Slate section of the 2024 New York Film Festival.
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow is written and directed by Julia Loktev.
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.
The film recently won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Gotham Independent Film Awards, and was long-listed for the 2025 Oscars, but not nominated.
We’ve added the release date to our Streaming Calendar. Check out a new clip from the film below.