Holding Liat

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Reba Jan 15 Powerful, complex, haunting. See more SL B @whatIlike Feb 15 Utterly absorbing documentary made in real time focused on Yehuda, a left-leaning Israeli-American with a lifelong commitment both to Israel and to justice for Palestinians, as he deals with his like-minded daughter Liat's abduction by Hamas on October 7 2023. Within the microcosm of Yehuda's family, his wife, his brother and daughter who have both chosen to leave Israel for the United States, his adult grandson (Liat's son) who experienced the October 7 raid but avoided being kidnapped, and the broader group of the exasperated handlers who bring Yehuda to the US Congress to plead for the hostages only to have him go repeatedly off script in his passionate opposition to Prime Minister Netanyahu and the military campaign to flatten Gaza, the film encompasses and vividly portrays the existential conundrum Israelis now face. See more Violeta E @VIOLA318 Feb 4 The film is about Hamas’s invasion of Kibbutz Nir Oz, the kidnapping of Liat & Aviv, the staggered release of captives, Liat’s freedom, & the confirmation that Aviv was murdered on October 7. That should have been enough. It isn’t. Instead,the narrative elevates Liat’s father as a moral anchor, revealing a clear agenda. Framed as a grieving parent, he functions as a political surrogate directing fury not at Hamas but largely at Israel and its government. He and his grandson travel to the United States urging diplomats to act against Israel’s "fanatical right," in scenes that repeat without challenge. What’s missing is deafening: no serious reckoning with Hamas’s wider crimes—mass murder, human shields, stolen aid, or brutality toward Palestinians. In the final act, Liat calls her captors "very nice," echoes "From the River to the Sea," and presents a flattened, accusatory history while claiming Israel kills Palestinians "like flies." Complexity vanishes; moral inversion is complete. See more E Jan 13 Moving story. Complex issues. An incredible family put in a desperate situation deals with these issues with integrity. See more Read all reviews

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