Ayelet Bargur was born in 1969 in San Francisco and has lived in Israel since 1970. Bargur studied at the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv and has an MA in disciplinary arts from Tel Aviv University. From 1995 to 1997 she was a grant recipient from the America Israel Cultural Foundation. During that time she produced her second short film A Good Place to Be, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival.The director of both feature and documentary films, Bargur is the recipient of several significant film awards. She has traveled and studied extensively, presenting her films worldwide. Bargur’s films often reflect a personal point of view. Her award-winning feature film As if Nothing Happened, about an Israeli family waiting to hear if their son has been killed in a bus bombing, and the documentary film At the End of the Day, about the death of four commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force unit within a 22-month period, are drawn from her own experiences.
In 2003 Bargur was awarded a prestigious year-long grant from the Berlin Artists-in-Residence program (Berliner Künstlerprogramm) of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Invited by the Academy of Arts in Berlin, Bargur spent the summer of 2004 as a guest of the 7th International Summer Academy in Rüdersdorf near Berlin. While in Berlin, Bargur made the short film An Israeli in Berlin the first of several projects exploring issues of identity and her own family history. Her 2006 book Ahawah Heisst Liebe on which The House on August Street is based and which documents the life and work of her great-aunt Beate Berger, was published by DTV, one of the largest publishing houses in Germany.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
The House on August Street (2000)
WINNER FIRST PRIZE Jerusalem International Film Festival
The National Center For Jewish Film
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