HOLDING LIAT
Sunday, February 15th at 4:30 PM
In Person: Producer Justin A. Goncalves
$18 Public | $11 Members
Opening for a full run on Friday, February 13th. For all other showtimes click here.
On October 7, 2023, Israeli-American Liat Atzili and her
husband Aviv were kidnapped from their home on a kibbutz near the Gaza
border. Told through the eyes of Liat’s family, Holding Liat is
an intimate, character-driven documentary that follows their agonizing efforts to
secure Liat’s release amid rising global tensions, political gamesmanship, and
frustrating diplomatic deadlock. Led by her father, Yehuda, the family mounts a
tireless campaign for her release. This intimate documentary lays bare their
raw grief and unyielding hope—a profound testament to love, endurance, and the
human cost of geopolitical violence. Caught between international diplomacy and
a rapidly escalating war, their family must face their own uncertainty and
conflicting political perspectives in the pursuit of Liat and Aviv’s release. (USA,
2025, 97 min., color, Rated NR, In English/Hebrew with subtitles)
Justin A. Goncalves is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York City
and currently works as a Creative Producer at Primordial Soup Labs, a New
York–based creative studio and production company working at the intersection
of filmmaking, emerging technology, and generative AI. Additional credits
include the 2023 remaster and re-release of PI, the debut feature by Darren
Aronofsky, the upcoming documentary YOSI directed by Jimmy Goldblum, and CAUGHT
STEALING for Sony Pictures. His work has screened at the Berlinale, the Tribeca
Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival,
and Cinema Jove.
