“QUITE POSSIBLY...ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES
YOU’LL SEE THIS YEAR!
(A) gem of a debut film... Lavie has created something
genuinely new and exciting.”
—Amos Barshad, GRANTLAND

“FULL OF UNEXPECTED TWISTS AND TURNS!
Inventively recasts conflict in decidedly non-heroic, absurdist white-collar terms... In this militaristic Office Space, the mayhem can only escalate.”
—Ronnie Scheib, VARIETY

“WONDERFULLY DROLL AND VICIOUS.”
—Michael Fox, FANDOR

“SHARPLY OBSERVED... SMART AND OFTEN HILARIOUS...
A great mixture of Girls, M*A*S*H and Office Space.”
—Dustin Chang, TWITCH

“A HILARIOUS NEW FILM
about Israel’s women soldiers. Israel’s answer to beloved war send-ups like M*A*S*H and Stripes. A stark and often hilarious look at Israeli military life.”
—Zachary Solomon, JEWNIVERSE

“NEVER STOPS BEING SHARPLY FUNNY.
Unpredictably entertaining.
Comedies this distinctive don’t come around that often. (Heralds) first-time writer-director Talya Lavie as an immensely promising new talent.”
—Mike D’Angelo, THE DISSOLVE

“A PITCH-BLACK COMEDY ABOUT FEMALE FRENEMIES
jammed into close quarters while doin’ time in the Israeli Defense Forces. Most movies prefer to show soldiers in combat, and Zero Motivation does just that—if “combat” means fighting to avoid boring admin work, to achieve the highest score at Minesweeper, to f*** up the most extravagantly, or with staple guns.”
—Cheryl Eddy, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

“SHREWD AND CLEVERLY WROUGHT...
with no end of unexpected turns and well-drawn characters...not only a pleasure in itself but also seems to signal the beginning of an important career.”
—Godfrey Cheshire, ROGEREBERT.com

A box office smash in Israel and winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, ZERO MOTIVATION is a unique, sharply observed, sometimes dark and often hilarious portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female soldiers in a remote Israeli desert outpost. Playing out like M*A*S*H meets Orange is the New Black, Talya Lavie's brilliant debut details the power struggles of three women with different agendas and very little to do. Pencil-pushers in the Human Resources Office, best friends Zohar (Dana Ivgy) and Daffi (Nelly Tagar) spend their time playing video games, singing pop songs, jousting with stationery and dreaming of Tel Aviv. The indolent twosome are watched over by their senior officer, Rama (Shani Klein), who aspires to a higher position and a significant military career, but with a platoon of unskilled, idle, female soldiers without any drive under her charge, her ambitions are constantly thwarted. With shifts of tone that go from slapstick to satiric to horrifying with fluid ease, and with a superb supporting cast of characters, ZERO MOTIVATION is destined to be one of the most talked about films of the year.

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