Winner: Berlin International Film Festival: Best Documentary, Berlin International Film Festival: Jury Prize, Hamptons International Film Festival: Brizzola Family Foundation Award for Best Film Depicting Conflict and Resolution, DocAviv: Best International Film
Nomination: Hong Kong Film Festival: Golden Firebird Award
Holding Liat
“Politically potent and emotionally gripping… a lucid portrait… Brandon Kramer does an impressive job revealing the personal and geopolitical aspects of a heartbreaking true story…Kramer’s movie certainly merits attention." Hollywood Reporter
"Emotionally rich, politically thought-provoking… intimate, empathetic… This timely film should find receptive audiences everywhere, and help bring nuance and understanding to a continuing crisis. This profoundly revealing documentary is structured and edited in such a way as to emphasise narrative clarity and the emotional content of its family portraiture." Screen International UK
“The film... writes itself into history.” Die Ziet
In the weeks unfolding after Liat is kidnapped, her father resists efforts to use her captivity to justify escalating violence in Gaza, exposing political and emotional rifts within his family as they struggle to find a way to bring her home. The film was shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Documentary.
Feature: 93min