My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow vs Rising Through the Fray
Rising Through the Fray has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow). Rising Through the Fray is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 5h 24m. Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
Rising Through the Fray| My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow | Rising Through the Fray | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2025 |
| Length | 5h 24m | 1h 28m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United States of America | Canada |
| Director | Julia Loktev | Courtney Montour |
| Main cast | Anna Nemzer, Ksenia Mironova, Sofya Groysman, Olga Churakova, Irina Dolinina | – |
Synopsis
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.
Rising Through the Fray
Combining interviews and live cinema, Rising Through the Fray plunges us into the heart of Indigenous Rising Roller Derby, the first international team to bring together Indigenous players from several countries. For Sour Cherry, Krispy, Hawaiian Blaze, and their teammates, the sport becomes much more than a competition. Through it, they find a space for sisterhood, resilience, acceptance, and healing. On camera, they share intimate stories not…
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