Catch a screening of HOLDING LIAT this month and experience the power of watching the award-winning documentary in community. Don’t see your city listed? Good news, you can now host a screening of HOLDING LIAT wherever you are! Visit our website holdingliat.com to book a community screening.

We are very excited to bring HOLDING LIAT back to Washington DC! After a powerhouse run last month in Silver Spring, the film returns to our nation’s capitol for another hometown screening - one night only! Plus Q&A with director Brandon Kramer and producer Lance Kramer moderated by Aviva Kempner.

“Bringing HOLDING LIAT to audiences in Japan has deepened my belief in our shared humanity and shown the universality of cinema.” - Director Brandon Kramer HOLDING LIAT has had a remarkable theatrical release in Japan, including Brandon Kramer’s visit to Tokyo.

Join us this Saturday at the New Plaza Cinema for an encore screening of HOLDING LIAT featuring Q&A with producer Lance Kramer! “Politically potent and emotionally gripping… a heartbreaking true story.” — THR

Connecticut! ✨We are excited to be screening HOLDING LIAT this Sunday at the Garde Arts Center in New London, presented by Jewish New London! Producer Lance Kramer will participate in a post-screening Q&A in person while film protagonist Yehuda Beinin will zoom in from afar. Hope to see you there!

HOLDING LIAT producer Lance Kramer spoke with Portland’s NPR station, OPB, about the film’s commitment to being present and to representing this family’s lived experience in all its complexity.

HOLDING LIAT is heading to Copenhagen for CPH:DOX! We are delighted and honored to keep bringing the film to vital festivals globally, 14 months after our Berlinale world premiere.

HOLDING LIAT opens Friday in Portland at @cinema21-portland.bsky.social! “One of the best films of the year” per the Guardian and Washington Post Q&As with film participants at select screenings! Tuesday, March 17 Q&A co-presented by Portland Jewish Film Festival.

How did HOLDING LIAT film participant & Portland resident Joel Beinin feel in the months immediately following October 7? He opens up in this recent radio interview on Portland’s NPR station OPB ahead of this Friday’s theatrical debut at @cinema21-portland.bsky.social

Experience the empathy and humanity at the heart of a story that goes so much deeper than any media narrative you’ve encountered. See HOLDING LIAT this weekend in Atlanta at @taraatlanta.bsky.social plus Q&A with producer Lance Kramer at select screenings!

“My hope is with this film, it allows people to bear witness to dealing with grief in different ways.” Brandon Kramer on making HOLDING LIAT with a family being forced to confront their differing opinions while dealing with matters of life or death. Now playing: holdingliat.com/buy-tickets

When you’re a documentary filmmaker screening in Boston, you pay your respects to the Master because of course you do. #FrederickWiseman

PORTLAND, OR! 🌹 HOLDING LIAT has sold out our Portland Jewish Film Fest screening at @cinema21-portland.bsky.social so they have added additional showtimes due to the demand.

Over a year after our award-winning festival premiere at Berlinale, we are very excited to continue making the rounds at top international festivals - this time as part of the Urgent Matters section of Copenhagen’s prestigious CPH:Dox!

Thank you Rabbi Rachel Timoner for your comments on the profound & nuanced story told by HOLDING LIAT. Watch the award-winning documentary that “breaks the binary” - in select theaters now! Go to HoldingLiat.com for showtimes.

HOLDING LIAT opens Friday at @thecoolidge.bsky.social in Boston! Be there for a special preview screening + Q&A with director Brandon Kramer moderated by journalist Shany Littman. Thurs Feb 19 7:00 PM Coolidge Corner Theatre

Thank you Jewish Link for calling out the balance & sensitivity within HOLDING LIAT. Make plans to see it in theaters: - NYC at New Plaza on Sunday - DC's AFI Silver playing multiple times daily thru Thurs Feb 19! - Boston opening at @thecoolidge.bsky.social on Feb 20 + Q&A at the 2/19 preview

“Schoolteachers do not get nearly the love and credit they deserve.” HOLDING LIAT director Brandon Kramer gave a shoutout to his HS teachers who were in the audience this past weekend at AFI Silver! HOLDING LIAT is held over at AFI Silver through next Thursday!

DC, you showed up in a big way for HOLDING LIAT! AFI Silver has held over the film for another week as a result. Director Brandon Kramer will be on hand Thurs night after the 6:30 screening - just pop over to McGinty’s Public House for casual convo starting around 8:10PM. All are welcome!

HOLDING LIAT is "extraordinary" says Amichai Lau Lavie. See it this weekend at New Plaza Cinema! Sunday, February 15 at 12:15pm. Tickets: newplazacinema.org

Instead of driving them apart, HOLDING LIAT brings people together. See it starting tomorrow: Washington DC (AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center) + Q&A! Montclair NJ ( Montclair Film's The Clairidge) Columbus OH (@gatewayfilmcenter.bsky.social) Get tickets now ➡️ HoldingLiat.com

HOLDING LIAT was the #2 doc for all of January! It’s an honor to see almost 3,000 people saw our film in only 3 locations last month. As you can see, we're just getting started. Let us know where you'd like to see the film (or tag your fave indie theater in the comments)!

Critics & audiences are drawn to HOLDING LIAT’s observational approach. Pointing the camera towards the family’s experience in the weeks after Oct 7th — without any footage revisiting that day — viewers bear witness to a family processing their pain while advocating for their loved one’s release.

HOLDING LIAT gets the @bradlander.bsky.social seal of approval! The former NYC Comptroller, current Congressional candidate & forever mensch calls the award-winning documentary “profoundly human” & adds “I would urge anyone to come and watch it.”

THE SOUND OF FALLING starts tomorrow!

When your protagonists have strong conflicting feelings and points of view, but also love each other and share many core values, how do they feel comfortable about opening up to the camera? HOLDING LIAT director Brandon Kramer spoke with producer Stacey Reiss about the process of building trust.

On @democracynow.org, HOLDING LIAT director Brandon Kramer reflects on his visit to Masafer Yatta, where he met filmmakers and activists connected to NO OTHER LAND. He speaks about the survivors of ongoing, horrific violence who risk their lives every day in the fight for their community’s survival.

HOLDING LIAT is one of the 10 best films of 2025 according to the Washigton Post! “Intimate, often painful, always engaging, HOLDING LIAT offers a disarmingly candid portrait of a family for whom unimaginable crisis becomes a source of self-examination, candor and growth.”

Oscars-Shortlisted doc HOLDING LIAT opens this Friday, Jan. 16 #AtTheJBFC—snag advance 🎟️ today: bit.ly/3Lo2zNd

“Liat is a very brave woman.” @democracynow.org’s Amy Goodman recommends HOLDING LIAT, now playing at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social & opening next Friday at Laemmle & @burnsfilmcenter.bsky.social! ✨Academy Award shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature ✨One of the Washington Post’s top 10 films of 2025

HOLDING LIAT is now playing at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social! Here’s what audiences are saying: “Extraordinary to behold.” “I’m very grateful this film exists.” 🌟On the Shortlist for Best Feature Documentary for the 98th Academy Awards 🌟Winner of the Documentary Award, Berlinale 2025

🎬🎗️Holding Liat New Yorkers - at Film Forum Opens Friday, January 9th www.instagram.com/stories/hold... @batzili.bsky.social 🤍

See HOLDING LIAT at Film Forum this weekend + filmmaker Q&A! filmforum.org/film/holding...

The film HOLDING LIAT about the efforts of Liat's parents to get her returned after the October 7 attack in Israel is a better look at what happened than what you will see elsewhere in the media www.unseenfilms.net/2026/01/hold...

"Politically potent and emotionally gripping"- The Hollywood Reporter HOLDING LIAT opens January 16 at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY. Be there for a sneak preview + Q&A with filmmakers Brandon Kramer + Lance Kramer moderated by film writer and critic David Schwartz!

It was such an honor to speak with filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda about HOLDING LIAT about the role of a documentary filmmaker and how our film, in bearing witness to what our protagonists are going through without judgment, captures an experience that is both personal and universal.

See HOLDING LIAT this month in theaters! ✨ Jan 9 at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social ✨ Jan 16 at Laemmle Theatres Filmmaker Q&As at select screenings. “Politically potent and emotionally gripping” – The Hollywood Reporter “Powerful and complex” – The Guardian

HOLDING LIAT is one of the best films of the year, says @washingtonpost.com! Opens Fri Jan 9 in NYC at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social Opens Fri Jan 16 in LA at Laemmle Theatres Director Q&As opening weekend on both coasts. Tickets are on sale now!

Care. Empathy. Humanity. HOLDING LIAT is one family’s story – with unique perspectives compared to the common media narratives around October 7. #ForYourConsideration | Best Documentary Feature A Film By the Kramer Brothers

“Once you awaken to what’s going on on the other side, you can’t unsee. We all have our blindspots, but there is a cost to not seeing, says Aziza Hasan, Executive Director of Newground. There is hope in being able to see and take in other’s stories.

Liat’s family experienced something drastically different than media narratives about hostage families. @camanpour.bsky.social spoke with Brandon Kramer about the process of documenting the family. Go beyond the headlines when HOLDING LIAT opens Jan 9 at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social

We’re 10 days away from the HOLDING LIAT theatrical premiere in NYC on Jan 9 at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social! We’re also hitting LA starting Jan 16. We’re still working on the rest of our screening dates & we’d love to hear from you – what city or theater do you hope will be showing HOLDING LIAT?

We were honored to hear how filmmaker @marshallcurry.bsky.social (director of THE NEW YORKER AT 100) described HOLDING LIAT at our @docnycfest.bsky.social screening earlier this year. Thank you Marshall for the kind words and for moderating this Q&A!

HOLDING LIAT is a “really important film” says Steve James, who has advised the Kramer Bros over the years through their mutual association with @kartemquinfilms.bsky.social. In theaters from Jan 9!

It’s not a choice between having empathy for one side or the other. You can have empathy for all people who are affected by this conflict. This is what Liat models in HOLDING LIAT. A film by the Kramer Brothers Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature In Theaters January 9

Big thanks to @theguardian.com for naming HOLDING LIAT as one of their top films of the year! If you’re in the UK you can watch it on BBC Storyville. In the US, HOLDING LIAT hits theaters starting January 9 at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social!

Critics agree – HOLDING LIAT is an emotionally impactful, must-see documentary. Opens January 9 in NYC at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and January 16 in LA at Laemmle Theatres, and more to come.

“My M.O. with Liat was, This is somebody who was just taken against her will & had zero agency, & I’m going to give her 100% agency.” Thank you IDA for the opportunity to delve deeper into the topic of consent while making HOLDING LIAT. Opens Jan 9 at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social

HOLDING LIAT hits theaters Jan 9 in NYC @filmforumnyc.bsky.social & Jan 16 in LA ABOUT THE FILM: After Liat is kidnapped, her father resists efforts to use her captivity to justify escalating violence, exposing political & emotional rifts within his family as they struggle to bring her home.

HOLDING LIAT was just named to the Best Documentary Feature Shortlist for the 98th Academy Awards. We are deeply grateful that Liat and her family, and the values this film represents, have been recognized alongside so many other exceptional films we admire. HOLDING LIAT opens in theaters Jan 9!