A Letter To David (2025)

Original title

מכתב לדויד

Directed by

Tom Shoval

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel, United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker makes a direct personal film addressed to an actor who worked with him years before that actor was taken hostage. The documentary serves as a message and a way to process a traumatic event through cinema.

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What happens

A Letter to David (Hebrew: מכתב לדוד, translit. Michtav Le'David) is a 2025 documentary film written and directed by Tom Shoval. It is a cinematic letter to David Cunio, who had previously starred in Shoval's Youth (2013), and who was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attacks in 2023 from Nir Oz, and held hostage in Gaza. The film had its world premiere at the Berlinale Special section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on 14 February 2025. It was theatrically released in Israel on 27 March by Go2Films. At the 36th Ophir Awards, it won the Best Documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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