Berlin, Feb. 22 -- Brandon Kramer's 'Holding Liat' won the Best Documentary Award at the ongoing Berlin Film Festival 2025. It follows the story of two elderly parents facing the kidnapping of their daughter during the Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023.

As per the synopsis on Berlinale, Liat is forcibly abducted from her kibbutz by members of Hamas on 7 October 2023. Director Brandon, in the documentary, covers the parents of Liat--Yehuda and Chaya as they try to deal with their fear or to sway the fate of their adult daughter and her husband in dialogue with the authorities.

The Berlinale Documentary Award is endowed with 40,000 euros in prize money. The prize money is split between the winning film's director and producer. Winning the...