Holding Liat Wins Berlin Prize

Dear Friends,

I am humbled to report a new film I scored, HOLDING LIAT, has won the Berlinale Documentary Award — as well as the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury — at the Berlin International Film Festival last Saturday. In their comment at the awards ceremony, the jury (headed by Jury President Todd Haynes) said:

“Sometimes a film can do something that nothing else seems to be able to do. A family decides to open the door for a film team, in the worst moment of their lives. The director treats this gesture not only with care and respect for this particular family’s pain, but also for a collective pain. It creates a space where the complexity of violence and justice and the contradictions of history are not silenced, but brought forward, and with such delicate humor. Holding Liat shows us not a path of revenge but of humanity. Where we are challenged to look beyond the fence, and care, rather than kill our neighbors.”

A summary of the film, from IMDb: Liat is one of the hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows her relatives from right up close, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and humanity amidst war, trauma and diplomacy.

A clip from the film is available to watch on the Deadline website and below are some score excerpts.

For now,

Jordan