Synopsis:
Female Israeli soldiers are posted to a remote desert base and spend their time pushing paper until they can return to civilian life.
About the Film
Zero Motivation (Hebrew title: אפס ביחסי אנוש, Zero on Interpersonal Relations) is a 2014 Israeli comedy-drama film directed by Talya Lavie. The film premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival where it received two awards. … It was the most successful Israeli film of 2014, seen by 590,000 people in Israel alone.
About the Director
Talya Lavie is an Israeli director, screenwriter, and comics artist. She studied animation at the Bezalel Art Academy and graduated with merit from the Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem. Her short film “Sliding Flora” screened at New York City’s MoMA and at over 40 film festivals worldwide.
Reviews for Zero Motivation
This film made me love foreign films. Not to say I had any dislike of foreign films before viewing Zero Motivation, but this movie illustrated for me the true reality of good filmmaking: being able to extend stories across all cultures. Zero Motivation is dark, hilarious, edgy, dynamic and tear-jerking. It spoke to me. I have never been in any type of military situation, but it spoke to me loud and clear. The lessons, struggles, and hardships these women go through, hit home. Even if “home” is an entire ocean away. If you’re going to watch a movie, make it this movie. Some of it’s themes are upsetting, and can be difficult to witness, but make no mistake, this film is shockingly fabulous.
—Bliss Button-Hale
I liked how the movie was set up in parts and told different stories of the different girls. I think my favorite part of the movie was the end when everyone somehow got their “happy ending”
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