HOLDING LIAT

“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

"A heartbreaking journey with unexpected humor"
– IndieWire

“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."
– The Hollywood Reporter

"Helps bring nuance and understanding to a continuing crisis"
– ScreenDaily

“Moving… it shows the possibility of remaining human.”
– Die Tagesspiegel

“The film... writes itself into history.”
– Die Zeit

“Kramer's film succeeds where other documentaries made after October 7th have been less successful — it walks the fine line between very complex psychological and political positions… Its human statement is almost incomprehensible in its nobility but also in its simplicity…”
– Haaretz

“[A] powerful and moving film… Intimate and unobtrusive style.”
– YNet