Two young women serving out their military service as office workers on a remote desert army base play out the inanity and insanity of military bureaucracy in tyro Israeli helmer Talya Lavie’s aptly ...

When filmmaker Talya Lavie was growing up in the 1980s, Israel had only one television channel. Lavie got her initial film education watching the same movies over and over again: Among her favorites ...

Zeitgeist Films has acquired the Israeli comedy, “Zero Motivation,” which won the best narrative feature prize at the Tribeca Film Festival, from German sales group The Match Factory. From first-time ...

Delicately shifting from laugh-out-loud comedy to dealing with complicated issues such as suicide and rape, Zero Motivation, the debut feature from Israeli director Talya Lavie is one of the year’s ...

While watching the rough cut of her upcoming motivational documentary "The Keeper of the Keys," Robin Jay still fights back tears. "I've seen this scene a hundred times," Jay said as she watched a ...

Writer-director Talya Lavie was inspired by her own time in the Israeli Defense Force and paints a picture of day-dreaming, gender politics and high heels If you show a staple gun in the first act it ...

Steam will release its first, non-documentary film later today in the form of Motivational Growth. The film is a sci-fi comedy distributed by Hotline Miami publisher Devolver Digital, who has itself ...