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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

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