Meryl Streep and Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (Citzenfour) have come onboard as executive producers on upcoming documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, Julia Loktev’s follow up to her acclaimed 2024 doc My Undesirable Friends: Part I – The Last Air in Moscow about independent journalists under fire in Russia. In her new documentary, which will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Loktev follows a group of young journalists labelled “foreign agents” by Putin’s regime. When Putin shuts down all independent media in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the reporters have to flee Moscow…
