A Letter to David

Israel, USA | Documentary | 2026 | 81 min. | English Subtitles

Writer & Director: Tom Shoval

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 7th, 2023, and was held hostage in Gaza for 738 days. 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.

Producers: Alona Refua, Maya Fischer, Roy Bareket, Nancy Spielberg

Executive Producers: Roi Kurland, Gal Greenspan, Len Blavatnik, Emily Blavatnik, Jay Ruderman, Rinat Klein Maron, Dorit Hessel, Moshe Edery

Production Companies: Green Productions, Playmount Productions

Editors: Margarita Linton, Maya Kenig

Cinematographer: Yaniv Linton

Original Score: Asher Goldschmidt
Sound designer: Itzik Cohen

Colorist: Yoav Raz

Graphic Design: Field Day Idan Am-Shalem, Zohar Koren, Raz Tzur

Produced with the help of: HOT8, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, The New Fund for Cinema and Television, The Weil-Bloch Foundation, The Blavatnik Family Foundation, Boston Rose, Jewish Story Partners