Russian President Vladimir Putin has a habit of driving people out of his country. You know – free-minded people, the kind who believe in democratic values and independent thinking.
That dynamic became apparent in the Oscar-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, about a beloved grade school educator in Russia’s east, exiled for defying Kremlin orders to implement a propagandistic curriculum after the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A similar fate befalls the protagonists of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, directed by Julia Loktev. The film, premiering exclusively on the Mubi platform this Friday, follows journalists – most of them young women – who found themselves essentially branded as enemies of the state for daring to report news from an independent perspective.
Loktev joins the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss
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