
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The remarkable feature film debut of Nir Bergman Broken Wings tells the story of recently widowed Dafna (Orly Zilberschatz-Banai) & her increasingly estranged four children Five-year-old Bar (Eliana Magon) suffers from feelings of abandonment while 10-year-old Ido (Danial Magon) attempts to break the world record in the free jump – into an empty swimming pool The teenage son Yair (Nitai Givirtz) refuses to go back to school preferring to spend his time dressed as a mouse distributing leaflets in the metro Seventeen-year-old Maya (Maya Maron) harbours feelings of anger & guilt as she is obliged to take on the role of surrogate mother to the younger children As the day progresses & the individual stories of the grieving family members intertwine an unexpected incident begins to pull them in the same direction giving them a vestige of hope & a chance to heal their broken hearts & once again brace their broken wings The winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival & successful in 9 categories at the Israeli Academy Awards Broken Wings achieves the delicate balance between drama & comedy offering a moving portrait of human characters who gradually come to understand the strength of the family & its power to heal