Zero Motivation
Director: Talya Lavie
Israel | Hebrew
2014 | 100min | ColourÂ
Subtitles: English
Saturday, Nov 7Â TIPA, 1:30 PM
Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Israel in India.
Through the story of three young women soldiers, Zero Motivation provides a comic-tragic glimpse into the Israeli militaristic society, depicting a real and surreal, humorous and gloomy journey inside a maze of military bureaucracy. An administration office may be the dullest and most unseen place on earth, but a staple-gun in the first act is sure to go off in the third.
Talya Lavie
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, Paris’s Louvre and in over 40 film festivals worldwide. Her thesis film The Substitute received several international awards, notably the Audience Award in the Berlinale. Zero Motivation, her first feature film, premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and won the Best Film Award and the best femme-centric Nora Ephron Prize. Zero Motivation was released in Israel on June 2014 and broke the box-office record. It won 6 Israeli Academy Awards and was chosen as the Best Israeli Film by the Israeli Film Critics Association.
Credits
Director: Talya Lavie
Producers: Eilon Ratzkovsky, Yossi Uzrad, Guy Jacoel, Yochanan Kredo
Cinematographer: Yaron Scharf
Screenwriter: Talya Lavie
Editor: Arik Lahav-Leibovich
Sound: Itzik Cohen
Music: Ran Bagno
Production Company: Zeitgeist Films
Cast: Dana Ivgy, Nelly Tagar, Shani Klein, Heli Twito, Meytal Gal, Tamara Klingon, Yonit Tobi, Yuval Segal, Elad Scemama
Festival Appearances & Awards
Tribeca Film Festival 2014 – Best Narrative Film, Best Director- the best femme-centric Nora Ephron Prize.
Odessa International Film Festival 2015 – “Golden Duke” Grand Prix Award
Israeli Academy Ophir Awards 2014 – Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Casting, Best music and Best Editing
Perth Film Festival 2015
London Film Festival 2014
Vancouver International Film Festival 2014
Cinema Savannah 2014
Olympya Film Festival 2014
Brisbane Film Festival 2014
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2014
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2014
