“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
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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.
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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!
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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.
20.01.2026 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HOLDING 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.”
16.01.2026 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THE SOUND OF FALLING starts tomorrow!
16.01.2026 02:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When 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.
15.01.2026 21:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On @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.
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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
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“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
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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...
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"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.
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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.
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