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Julia Loktev’s two‑part documentary “My Undesirable Friends” chronicles journalists from TV Rain, Russia’s last independent news channel before it was shut down for covering the war in Ukraine. The project originally aimed to depict reporters working in a hostile climate, but when the journalists were forced to flee Russia and disperse across Europe, the film’s scope broadened to follow their displacement. The shift illustrates how documentary subjects’ changing circumstances can reshape a filmmaker’s narrative.

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