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'My Undesirable Friends' Director Julia Loktev

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Apr 7, 202649:16TV & Film

American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia, only to find herself documenting its death in re...

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'My Undesirable Friends' Director Julia Loktev is an episode from IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit by IndieWire. American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of...

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Published Apr 7, 2026, 49:16 long, audio available.

'My Undesirable Friends' Director Julia Loktev

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