My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile, Chapter 4-5
Saturday, October 17, 2026 · 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Winifred Moore Auditorium · Webster, NY
About this event
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile will play in two sections, Chapters 1-3 (191 minutes) and Chapters 4-5 (164 minutes). Each section is separate admission. Chapter 1-3 showtimes: Friday, October 16 at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, October 18 at 3:15 p.m. Chapter 4-5 showtimes: Saturday, October 17 at 7 p.m. Sunday, October 18 at 7 p.m. (Julia Loktev, 2026, USA, 355 minutes) A group of young journalists flee Moscow when Russia invades Ukraine and shuts down all independent media, turning telling the truth into a crime. Just days before, they were working as part of a vibrant opposition community. Now they’re part of a historic exodus. They leave with a few hours’ notice, carry-on suitcases, and no idea what country they can go to next that will let them stay and keep working. They must quickly get back on their feet to report on the biggest story of their lives, a war they all fiercely oppose. Intimate and immersive, the film sweeps across four years and a dozen countries. The complex, razor sharp and often very funny women — and a few men — gather in apartments that feel like waystations and borrowed offices before being uprooted yet again. They work to bring Russians an alternative to propaganda, speaking out against their country’s war crimes and wrestling with personal moral accountability, even as Russia menaces them with criminal prosecution back home and physical threats abroad. Relying on dark humor to get through dark times, they keep working for the uncertain future of a country they may not return to for decades. As the years pass in exile, they have to redefine what work, family, friendship, love and home mean when you can’t go home. My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile is the follow up to the critically acclaimed My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, which after having its St. Louis premiere and exclusive run at the Webster Film Series in October 2025 went on to win the Gotham Award, the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics awards for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction, was nominated for a Spirit Award, and Shortlisted for the Oscars. In Russian with English subtitles.
Event details
- Date and time
- Saturday, October 17, 2026 · 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
- Venue
- Winifred Moore Auditorium · Webster, NY
- Category
- Arts & culture
- Cost
- Cost not stated
- Age guidance
- Age guidance not specified
- Format
- In person
- Last verified
- October 6, 2026
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