Join the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema and the Chicago JCC for a screening of A Letter to David on October 5th at 2pm in Highland Park. This is a MIDWEST PREMIERE! To commemorate the 2nd anniversary of October 7th–and the 731st day 50 hostages will have been brutally held captive in Gaza.

A Letter to David (מכתב לדויד)

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.