Filmmaker Julia Loktev follows My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, her sprawling, 324-minute chronicle of Russia’s methodical elimination of the free press, with Part II – Exile, an even more ambitious (and yet longer) documentary that tracks her subjects as they disperse across the globe. My Undesirable Friends’ first part set out to profile Russian journalists declared “foreign agents” by the government and to record the impact of the law’s Kafka-esque requirements on their lives. Those plans were upended, however, when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, with the Kremlin swiftly ramping up its already draconian media censorship by banning the few remaining outposts of information not sanctioned by the state. Although the journalists featured in Part I initially attempted to continue their independent reporting, that option was foreclosed within a week of the war’s outset.