In the documentary “ Holding Liat ,” director Brandon Kramer follows elderly American Israeli couple, Yehuda and Chaya Beinin, as they fight for the release of their 49-year-old daughter, Liat Beinin Atzili, and her husband, Aviv, who were kidnapped and taken into captivity in Gaza after the October 7 attacks.

The film, which won the top nonfiction prize at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, follows the kibbutznik couple, originally from New Jersey, as they navigate bringing their daughter and son-in-law home while also contending with the Israeli government’s handling of the crisis, their hopes for peace and a two-state solution, and Yehuda’s criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .

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