Ayelet Bargur was born in 1969, lives in Israel. Bargur studied in the Camera Obscura School of Art, and has an MA degree Tel Aviv University. In 1997 her short film A Good Place to Be  was  part of the official selection in the Short film Competition in the Cannes International Film Festival, and received several awards from International film festivals. Since then she is directing Fiction and Documentary films. Her documentaries and feature films are presented in international film festivals around the world and were granted with various awards.
Ayelet Bargur’s films reflect daily life through her personal point of view. Bargur’s Short feature film As if Nothing Happened (2000) an Israeli family is confronting the uncertainty regarding the fate of their eldest son, a soldier in the Israeli Army, as a result of a suicidal bomb attack that took place on the 21^st of January 1995. The film won first prize at the Jerusalem International Film Festival, and was nominated to the Israeli Academy Award for short features. In 2003 Ayelet received an Artists in residence grant from the DAAD in Berlin. Her stay in Berlin became a journey back to her own family history, about the Ahawah children’s home that existed  in Berlin between 1922-1939. The Mixed genre film (Documentary and Fiction) The House on August Street (2007) about the Ahawah Children’s home won the Second Prize for Best Documentary in Haifa International Film Festival, and the Prix Circom Award’s (Europe’s Awards for television productions)  Grand Prix for Best Documentary.