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A Letter to David
A Letter to David is a personal cinematic letter from filmmaker Tom Shoval to David Cunio, who was taken by Hamas from the Nir Oz kibbutz on October 7, 2023, and has been held hostage in Gaza ever since. Ten years ago, David and his twin brother Eitan starred in Shoval’s award-winning debut feature film Youth (Berlinale 2013), which focused on the powerful bond between brothers and, in a tragic and unimaginable twist of fate, revolved around a kidnapping. Through unedited behind-the-scenes footage and audition tapes from that film, Shoval creates a multi-layered documentary that explores profound questions about the inexplicable connections between life and cinema, memory and reality, and the catastrophic consequences of war.
Festivals and Awards:
Berlinale Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2025.
Director: Tom Shoval
Producer: Alona Refua, Maya Fischer, Roy Bareket, Nancy Spielberg
Production Company: Green Productions, Playmount Productions
Cinematographer: Yaniv Linton
Editor: Margarita Linton, Maya Kenig
Soundtrack Editor: Itzik Cohen
Original Soundtrack: Asher Goldschmidt
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, The Weil-Bloch Foundation, HOT8, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, The Blavatnik Family Foundation, Boston Rose, Jewish Story Partners
Colourist / Online Editor: Yoav Raz
Script: Tom Shoval
Distributor: Go2Films
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: מכתב לדויד
A Letter to David is a personal cinematic letter from filmmaker Tom Shoval to David Cunio, who was taken by Hamas from the Nir Oz kibbutz on October 7, 2023, and has been held hostage in Gaza ever since. Ten years ago, David and his twin brother Eitan starred in Shoval’s award-winning debut feature film Youth (Berlinale 2013), which focused on the powerful bond between brothers and, in a tragic and unimaginable twist of fate, revolved around a kidnapping. Through unedited behind-the-scenes footage and audition tapes from that film, Shoval creates a multi-layered documentary that explores profound questions about the inexplicable connections between life and cinema, memory and reality, and the catastrophic consequences of war.
Festivals and Awards:
Berlinale Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2025.
Director: Tom Shoval
Producer: Alona Refua, Maya Fischer, Roy Bareket, Nancy Spielberg
Production Company: Green Productions, Playmount Productions
Cinematographer: Yaniv Linton
Editor: Margarita Linton, Maya Kenig
Soundtrack Editor: Itzik Cohen
Original Soundtrack: Asher Goldschmidt
Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, The Weil-Bloch Foundation, HOT8, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, The Blavatnik Family Foundation, Boston Rose, Jewish Story Partners
Colourist / Online Editor: Yoav Raz
Script: Tom Shoval
Distributor: Go2Films
Subtitles: English
Film Name in Hebrew: מכתב לדויד