A Letter to David

From scripted film to unimaginable reality.

Filmmaker Tom Shoval creates a poignant cinematic letter to David Cunio, his former lead actor and friend, who was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz to Gaza on 7 October and remains in captivity. Using behind-the-scenes footage, raw material, and auditions from their earlier film Youth, a story that eerily mirrored themes of kidnapping, Shoval pieces together a haunting portrait of friendship, loss, and resilience.

This affecting visual journey reflects on what was and never will be again, the cruel separation of twin brothers, and the inexplicable connection between life and cinema, memory and reality, offering testimony through what already exists, without showing the horrors of that day.