Journalists From Outlawed Russian TV Rain Gather As Documentary ‘My Undesirable Friends’ Screens Ahead Of NYFF World Premiere
deadline.comAnna Nemzer, former journalist at exiled Russian news network TV Rain, offered a word of warning today — don’t ignore “unpleasant” political signs.
That comes from someone with firsthand knowledge of the aftershocks. “All countries are different, and we have a lot of countries under dictatorships, under authoritarian regimes.
But we also have democratic countries with very unpleasant signs. And if we can share something of our experience, it would be don’t ignore unpleasant signs — they definitely become something more important and bigger than just signs.
It won’t pass,” she said after American filmmaker Julia Loktev’s multi-part documentary My Undesirable Friends: The Last Air In Moscow screened for press at the New York Film Festival ahead of its official world premiere.
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