A LETTER TO DAVID

MICHTAV LEDVAID

By Tom SHOVAL

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Social issues - Completed 2025


A cinematic letter to director Tom Shoval’s friend David Cunio, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7th, create a poetic, existential essay about a dire, unimaginable situation.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale 2025
Official Selection
Doc Edge 2025
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Social issues, True Story, Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA, ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • HEBREW
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 74 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Tom SHOVAL
    • Synopsis
    • Filmmaker Tom Shoval crafts a personal cinematic letter to David Cunio, who was abducted by Hamas from Kibbutz Nir Oz 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 Youth, Shoval builds a multi-layered documentary that explores the inexplicable connections between life and cinema, memory and reality, and the catastrophic consequences of war.