Kinema Streams 'Holding Liat,' Funds Gaza Soup Kitchen
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- Kinema is streaming "Holding Liat" and "Everything You Have Is Yours" for limited runs in what it calls an innovative collaboration with Rabbis for Ceasefire and Expanding Our Conversation on Israel/Palestine
- Tickets cost $5, with half of the proceeds from each ticket donated to the Gaza Soup Kitchen
- "Holding Liat" streams on Kinema through June 18, with a live virtual Q&A featuring directors Brandon and Lance Kramer and protagonist Joel Beinin, moderated by Rabbi Benjamin Barnett
- "Everything You Have Is Yours" streams June 21-25 on Kinema, with a June 25 Q&A featuring director Tatyana Tenenbaum, editor Sasha Perry, and protagonist Hadar Ahuvia, moderated by Rabbi Alissa Wise
- "Holding Liat", produced by Darren Aronofsky among others, is a Berlinale winner and Oscar documentary shortlist selection that played at 75 film festivals and aired on BBC Storyville in the UK, despite never securing U.S. distribution
- "Holding Liat" follows the Beinin Atzili family after Liat and her husband were seized by Hamas on October 7, with the family refusing to demonize Palestinians while fighting for her release
- "Everything You Have Is Yours" centers on NYC-based Israeli-descended choreographer Hadar Ahuvia exploring her family's ties to early Zionist pioneering culture through Israeli folk dance, framed as a portrait of political reckoning
- Kinema launched in 2021 as a streaming and community cinema platform where filmmakers control their release dates, territories, and partners, per CEO Christie Marchese
Why it matters: The collaboration gives U.S. audiences rare home access to "Holding Liat," an Oscar-shortlisted Berlinale winner that previously had no American distributor. The Gaza Soup Kitchen proceeds tie-in and progressive Jewish organizational framing mean viewers' $5 tickets directly fund humanitarian relief in Gaza while the screenings advance an anti-occupation Jewish discourse.
