Darren Aronofsky-produced HOLDING LIAT - North American Premiere at Tribeca!

HOLDING LIAT

By Brandon Kramer – SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY

North American Premiere

Winner of the 2025 Berlinale Documentary Award

Meridian Hill Pictures © 2025

HOLDING LIAT

United States

2025 - 97m - Color

English and Hebrew with English Subtitles

A Protozoa Pictures and Meridian Hill Pictures production

Worldwide Sales: MetFilm

Produced By:

Darren Aronofsky, Lance Kramer, Yoni Brook, Ari Handel, and Justin A. Gonçalves

After Liat Beinin Atzili is kidnapped on October 7th, her Israeli-American family faces their own conflicting perspectives to fight for her release and the future of the places they call home.

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE SCREENING

Monday, June 9th, 2025 - 5:30pm / Village East by Angelika 1

ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SCREENINGS

Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 - 5:45pm / Village East by Angelika 3

Thursday, June 12th, 2025 - 8:00pm / AMC 19th St. East 6

AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

Brandon Kramer (director) and the Beinin-Atzili Family

© Lou Aguilar

About Brandon Kramer (director)

Brandon Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures with his brother Lance. Brandon directed THE FIRST STEP (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); CITY OF TREES (Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, PBS, Netflix); and the Webby Award-winning independent documentary series THE MESSY TRUTH (CNN). Brandon is a Film Independent Fellow, a DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellow, a regular collaborator with Kartemquin Films in Chicago, and has served as a media teaching artist for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Brandon holds a bachelor’s degree in film and cultural anthropology from Boston University.

About Darren Aronofsky (producer)

Darren Aronofsky is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Aronofsky heads Protozoa based in Chinatown NYC. His credits include π, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, THE FOUNTAIN, THE WRESTLER, BLACK SWAN, NOAH, mother!, THE WHALE, the Sphere Experience POSTCARD FROM EARTH, and the upcoming CAUGHT STEALING for Sony Pictures. As a producer his credits include JACKIE, THE GOOD NURSE, SOME KIND OF HEAVEN, Peabody and Emmy-winning THE TERRITORY, National Geographic’s LIMITLESS, starring Chris Hemsworth, WELCOME TO EARTH, ONE STRANGE ROCK, and the upcoming POLE TO POLE starring Will Smith.

About Lance Kramer (producer)

Lance Kramer is a Washington, DC-based filmmaker and co-founder of Meridian Hill Pictures. Lance produced THE FIRST STEP (Tribeca, AFI DOCS); CITY OF TREES (Full Frame, PBS, Netflix) and the Webby Award-winning series THE MESSY TRUTH. Lance is a Film Independent Fellow and has been selected to participate in the Film Independent Fast Track program, Sundance Creative Producers Summit, Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship cohort, was named to the DOC NYC “40 Under 40” list, and received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award, the highest honor given to working artists in the Nation’s Capital. Lance is a former Board Member of Docs in Progress, a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, and currently serves on the board of the Foundation for the Augmentation of African Americans in Film (FAAAF). 

About Yoni Brook (producer, director of photography)

Yoni Brook is a Peabody Award winning filmmaker whose films have screened at Sundance, Berlinale, and the New York and Toronto Film Festivals. Credits as a producer include the docuseries PHILLY D.A. (PBS/Topic, Peabody Winner, duPont-Columbia Award Winner, Gotham Award Winner), MENASHE (Sundance, A24, Film Independent Spirit Nominee), BRONX PRINCESS (True/False, PBS POV), THE CALLING (PBS Independent Lens), and A SON’S SACRIFICE (Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Short, IDA’s Best Documentary Short, PBS Independent Lens) and as a cinematographer, 32 SOUNDS (Sundance, Oscar Shortlist), A STRAY (SXSW), and VALLEY OF SAINTS (Film Independent Spirit Nominee, Sundance World Dramatic Audience Award Winner).