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Synopsis: A zany, dark, & comedic portrait of everyday life for a unit of young, female Israeli soldiers. The Human Resources Office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters who bide their time pushing paper and battling in computer games, counting down the minutes until they can return to civilian life. Amidst their boredom and clashing personalities, issues of commitment - to friendship, love, and country - are handled with humor and sharp-edged wit.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Talya Lavie
Production: Zeitgeist Films
  9 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
UNRATED
Year:
2014
97 min
Website
254 Views


In this drawer there are staplers, pins, thumbtacks,

separators, straight blades, envelope opener,

pencil sharpeners, plastic glue, ink pens, pen

fillers, staplers.. Stop, you're giving me a headache.

Staple gun. The most expensive

item in the office.

This thing is deadly.

Nothing works like these on the big

posters. Not thumbtacks, not scotch tape.

There are only two of them and

they're numbered. We hide them here.

Even if Gd forbid, you become a POW and

they torture you, you tell no one. Got it?

Boaz? Yeah?

You got a minute?

For you, even 60 seconds.

I wanted to update you about my

application to become a Captain.

I heard there's only one more opening

and I need a recommendation from you.

There's still time before

the Commission, right?

Yes, but I'd rather take

care of it ahead of time.

How many candidates are there? It's me and

three other officers from the division.

Excellent. Competition is a good thing.

You'll have plenty of time to impress us.

There's going to be an

inspection soon, correct? Yes.

It's a great chance to earn some points.

Absolutely. I'll do the best I can.

I'm sure.

Girls! Are you on vacation?

What do you mean by, "moving to the City"?

Exactly what is says. Nothing more.

Don't you talk back to me. I don't

have the time or patience for this.

We're not supposed to get new

recruits until the end of the month.

No, Rama, it's all good,

everything is organized, I...

It's just that I've made some contacts

with some officials in the city.

What kind of contacts?

I've been sending letters.

A lot of letters. To who?

To the mental health officer, to the head

of personal affairs, to the general staff.

The Chief of Staff's Advisor for Women's Relations,

and frankly, to the Chief of Staff himself.

What?

Right, Zohar? We ended up

sending him a letter, right?

To the Chief of Staff? Yeah, I think so.

You sent a letter to the Chief of Staff?

What did you write to him?

That you're a spoiled secretary who the

Army invented a non-existent position for?

Paper-shredding sergeant, because she doesn't

know how to type or transfer a phone call?

That you want to transfer to the City

because the desert dries out your hair?

Well, obviously, we wrote

it a little differently.

This bypassing of authority is unheard of. I don't

think the Chief of Staff dealt with it personally.

He probably forwarded it to a personal

affairs officer or something like that.

I can't believe this disgrace.

Everything is so organized

with the combat soldiers.

And the non-combatants are

thrown around like garbage.

And stop moving binders around here!

Close the door!

You'll have wait till I have time. Does

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Talya Lavie

Talya Lavie (born 1978) is an Israeli filmmaker best known for her 2014 debut feature Zero Motivation. more…

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