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Great documentaries never turn out quite the way you plan them. You might start out thinking that you’re making one film, but a documentarian has to be willing to accept when changes in the lives of their subjects changes the nature of their project.

Julia Loktev‘s two-part documentary “My Undesirable Friends” is a perfect example of this. The films, which follow journalists at TV Rain, which was Russia’s last independent news channel before it was shut down over coverage of the war in Ukraine, began as a story about journalists working in a hostile climate.…