My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile
Director and Producer Julia Loktev
A community of young journalists are forced to flee when Russia turns telling the truth into a crime. As their country wages a criminal war they oppose, they must figure out how to keep working from exile, relying on friendship and dark humor to get through dark times.
2026
Julia Loktev
Director, Producer
Julia Loktev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to the U.S. at age 9. She has made both fiction and documentary features. The Loneliest Planet starring Gael Garcia Bernal, received the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival, nominations for Best Director at Independent Spirit Awards, and Best Feature at Gotham Awards, and was chosen by IndieWire as one of the “100 Best Films of Last Decade.” Day Night Day Night premiered at Cannes in Directors’ Fortnight, received two Gotham Award nominations, and earned the Someone to Watch Award at Independent Spirit Awards. Her documentary Moment of Impact won the Sundance Film Festival Documentary Directing Award and the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Reél, screened in New Directors/New Films at MoMA, and was an Independent Spirit Awards Truer Than Fiction nominee. Julia is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Emerging Icons Award from the George Eastman Museum.