Broken Wings (2002 film)

Broken Wings (Hebrew: כנפיים שבורות / Knafayim Shvurot) is a 2002 Israeli film directed by Nir Bergman and starring Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron, and Nitai Gaviratz.

In its release year, the film won multiple Ophir Awards for artistic design, cinematography, directing, editing, screenplay, soundtrack, acting (Maya Maron and Orly Silbersatz Banai), and for Best Picture.

According to academic research, despite Israeli filmmakers' left-leaning tendencies, fictional films largely omit the occupation and terror attacks, replacing direct representations with arbitrary causes of death, as seen in Broken Wings.

This choice reflects a broader trend in Israeli narrative cinema to avoid directly engaging with the traumas of terror attacks or the occupation during the Second Intifada.

The arbitrariness of the father's death symbolically displaces the tragic randomness of terror attacks, highlighting a tendency toward repression in fictional representations of national trauma.