Registration REQUIRED by 12pm on March 20, 2026 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Department of Slavic Languages for the first of a two-night screening of Julia Loktev's film "My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow." Organized by Liza Senatorova and Mark Lipovetsky.
"My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow" is an award-winning five-and-a-half-hour documentary whose filming began in Moscow in October 2021. Divided into five chapters, the film follows journalists from the independent news station TV Rain (Dozhd), who were labeled “foreign agents” by the Russian government for reporting news content that diverged from the official state narrative. What started as a portrait of independent media journalism under the escalating pressure of Putin’s regime gradually transformed into a historical artifact, capturing the atmosphere of anxiety and chaos during the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The film will be in Russian with English subtitles.
Please email [email protected] to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
