No Place Like Home: Holding Liat (with producer Lance Kramer '06 in person)
After Liat 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.
After Liat 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.
On the morning of October 7, 2023, Israeli American Liat Atzili and her husband Aviv were at home when Hamas attacked their kibbutz. By nightfall, Liat and Aviv are captives in Gaza along with 250 other people—12 of whom, like Liat, are American citizens. 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. This agonizing process, and the ultimate fate of their loved ones, challenges how the members of the family understand themselves and their place in the conflict.
Through the intimate lens of a family's experience, this thoughtful documentary poses complex questions of identity across generations, as the family is thrust into the epicenter of a global conflict rapidly unfolding in real-time.
Discussion follows with producer Lance Kramer '06.
