Israeli Hostage Survivor and Subject of Doc ‘Holding Liat’ on Recent Hostage Release: ‘After a War of This Scale We Can’t Have Things Go Back to What They Were’

Israeli Hostage Survivor and Subject of Doc ‘Holding Liat’ on Recent Hostage Release: ‘After a War of This Scale We Can’t Have Things Go Back to What They Were’

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 fro…