Back from leave, Dafi and Zohar, who are doing their Israeli military service, return to the HR office at a base lost in the middle of the hostile desert. Despite the efforts of their superior to motivate them by any means possible, the two friends are bored out of their minds: by their colleagues and the dumb tasks they are given while the spend their time playing Minesweeper on their old computers. While Dafi dreams of being transferred to the city where she can live a more normal life, Zohar, insolence incarnate, does everything she can to lose her virginity…

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Israeli director Talya Lavie’s debut mixes Robert Altman’s M.A.S.H. with traces of Private Benjamin starring Goldie Hawn, and there are even element’s of Lena Dunham’s Girls. Inspired by the director’s own experiences in the Israeli Defense Forces and he desire to tell a story about her country in a different way, Zero Motivation turns the rules of war movies upside down by filming it the other way around: offices become battlefields, in which paper chases, weapons and boredom form a series of adventures that become increasingly funny and brutal – a duel with staplers is already becoming legendary. After its success in Israeli theaters and at the Tribeca Festival in New York, Zero Motivation has become an inescapable phenomenon for independent cinema – and for the best reasons: this is a debut film whose ambitions surpass its imperfections.