Tom Shoval (Director)

A Letter to David

Ten years ago, David Cunio starred in Tom Shoval’s debut feature film Youth, which revolved around a kidnapping. On October 7, 2023, Cunio was taken from the Nir Oz kibbutz and has been held hostage in Gaza ever since. Now, Shoval sends him a cinematic letter.

Release Date: 2025-02-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Life Without Credit

Libby, wild and enigmatic, wanders like a possessed woman among the corners of the streets of South Tel Aviv as she carries an explosive secret in her heart. Libby escaped from “Or La’banot" a religious care institution and she is on the run. Libby is desperately looking for Ezra, a mysterious relative of hers, who was appointed as her legal guardian, after she was declared "mentally ill" and then disappeared from her life. With vague details on his whereabouts, she encounters other people that Ezra knew or met, penetrates their loneliness while gathering more clues to the fate of the man who holds her keys to freedom.

Release Date: 2025-01-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Katya's Hand

Katya, a crane worker, receives a tempting work proposition. She leaves Alex, her 11-year-old son, to babysit his brother. When a storm breaks out, Alex starts to worry.

Release Date: 2023-11-26

Department: Crew

Job: Script

Vote Count: 2

June Zero

Israel, 1961. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, responsible for organizing the extermination of European Jews, is sentenced to death.

Release Date: 2022-05-02

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 5

The Echo of Your Voice

Ari Shemer was the greatest singer Israel knew in the 1970's, and a legend in his own lifetime. Decades later, Lenny Shemer, his grandson, turns out to be a musical prodigy and signs up for a famous reality-TV singing competition that may turn him into a pop sensation. So why is his father, Kobi, Ari's son, so underappreciated by his peers? How is it that the great talent seems to have skipped over him with such cruel nonchalance? This is a musical drama about the strange nature of talent, three generations of musicians and the echoes left between them.

Release Date: 2021-11-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Shake Your Cares Away

Following the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Alma is left alone in their luxurious villa. Driven by a compulsion to do good, she invites homeless mother Marina to take shelter in her house. This simple act gives a new meaning to Alma’s life: she decides to turn the entire property into a refuge for people in need. Alma is prepared to pour everything she has into this fragile utopia, but reality can fracture even the deepest convictions.

Release Date: 2021-08-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 7

Voice Over

Fifty years after Slow Down by Avraham Heffner won a prize at Venice Film Festival, top alumni of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School challenge the 1968 legendary black and white

Release Date: 2018-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

Johnny and the Knights of Galilee

Reunion of childhood friends leads to a succeeding gigolo business in the north of Israel.

Release Date: 2015-02-02

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Youth

Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to change their lives and that of their family – or so they believe.

Release Date: 2013-08-29

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 18

Aya

When Thomas Overby mistakenly believes Aya is his assigned driver, she spontaneously decides to go along with the charade and drives him to Jerusalem. A stiff and guarded pianist, Overby is intrigued by the impulsive though melancholy Aya. As they slowly begin to connect, the film takes us on a journey we hope will never end.

Release Date: 2012-09-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 20

I Will Drink My Tears

Yonatan, a young rascal, needs fifteen Shekels. Everything else is not important right now.

Release Date: 2011-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

Shred of Hope

Shred of Hope (2007) It is winter, Julian is heading to work, as always. On his face signs of trouble are noticeable, but maybe it isn't so, maybe it's nothing, just another ordinary day at work

Release Date: 2007-07-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Hungry Heart

A popular radio show helps Nissim to win his girlfriend's heart again.

Release Date: 2005-07-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Dead Language

While waiting at the airport for her husband, Aya is mistaken for someone else. Intrigued, she decides to pick up a complete stranger on a whim. Their encounter sparks an unexpected intimacy that unsettles Aya’s sense of certainty and awakens a yearning she neither fully understands nor knows how to fulfill. Her quiet search for meaning unfolds in a hotel room, a customer service chat and in subtle disruptions to her daily routine, as we are taken through a woman’s delicate and honest search for something meaningful.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer