In the darkest hour, 'family embraces empathy, peace, self‑determination for Israelis, Palestinians'

In the wake of October 7th, filmmaker Brandon Kramer just learned the unthinkable: two of his own relatives had been taken hostage by Hamas. Immediately he calls Liat’s parents, Yehuda and Chaya, only to discover that the Israeli government was not at all forthcoming. So they flew to Washington DC to advocate for the release of their family members: “We began documenting three generations of a family at their most intimate and vulnerable moment," explains Mr. Kramer, only to realize that the story unfolding before their very eyes was far more complex than the official narratives broadcast across the globe. Brandon Kramer captured the family's every move during their darkest hours, the devastation and immense pain. Liat and her father, in a state of enormous grief, were not calling not for vengeance and retribution but for peace and reconciliation.