October 7 at Cinema Spiegel

Good Morning Gaza | Hall 1

Or Brandes, a psychology student and reservist who served in Gaza as a tank driver (“wagon driver”), broadcasts an improvised podcast to soldiers over the communications network. From candid conversations about fear, denial, and feelings of revenge to jokes and pranks—the soldiers open up and speak frankly. Through audio excerpts from the communications network, alongside intimate footage from the battles, a window opens into the fighters’ souls in the period following October 7.

Director: Hanan Brandes, Matan Skopsky
53 minutes, 2026, Hebrew with English subtitles

Alon, My Hero Brother | Hall 2

Twenty-six-year-old Alon Shamriz was kidnapped to Gaza on October 7 from his home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. His brothers, Yonatan and Ido, who were evacuated with the kibbutz community to a hotel in Shefayim, embarked on a journey full of struggles to bring their younger brother home. The family fought on every front, in Israel and abroad, in an attempt to prevent the tragedy that had befallen many of their friends from the kibbutz. The film follows Yonatan, Ido, and their family with rare intimacy, on a journey spanning the country and the world, filled with furious demonstrations, charged meetings, frustration, pain, and fear, alongside moments of grace, optimism, and humor.

Director: Omri Koren
2025, 36 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles

A Letter to David — The Complete Version | Hall 3

Winner of the Best Documentary Film Award, Ophir Awards 2025

A cinematic letter from filmmaker Tom Shoval to David Cunio, who was kidnapped to Gaza on October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Oz and released after 738 days in captivity. David and his twin brother Eitan played the leading roles in Shoval’s award-winning debut film, Youth. The film portrayed the strong, immediate bond between the two brothers, and centered on a kidnapping. Shoval returns to that film—to its raw footage, its unedited behind-the-scenes documentation, auditions, and tests. He reassembles them into a unique documentary work that is both a personal letter and a fragmented, multilayered, painful portrait of the new reality in the devastated kibbutz under the shadow of war, and of its members, many of whom were murdered or kidnapped. This is a searing visual journey about what was and will not be, about twin brothers whom reality cruelly separated, and about the unfathomable connection between reality and cinema, between life and memory.

Director: Tom Shoval
2025, 81 minutes, Hebrew

Admission is free with advance registration

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • 12:00 | 15:00 | 18:00