Awards
Israel Film Festival 2000
Audience ChoiceIsrael Academy Awards 1999
Winner, Best Actress TV Drama
Nomination, Best Tv DramaJerusalem Film Festival 1999
Honorable Mention, Television Drama
Ziv Gonen, an Israeli soldier waiting for a bus, may or may not have been a victim of a terrorist bombing. Ayelet Bargur’s drama focuses on Ziv’s family as they await news of his whereabouts. As they wait, family and friends pull together and fall apart as the tension mounts and the Gonen family home becomes the site of pent up hopes and fears. Beautifully crafted and stunningly acted, this award-winning feature film illuminates every Israeli family’s nightmare.As If Nothing Happened is based on the personal experience of director Ayelet Bargur and her family in the aftermath of the Beit Lid terrorist attack of January 22, 1995. Barger’s fictional account incorporates archival footage of the Beit Lid attack during which two suicide bombers killed nineteen Israelis on a quiet Sunday morning.
“As If Nothing Happened is 50 minutes about a single moment that stretched out forever…The intense acting and the non melodramatic directing make this drama one of the best films I’ve seen on TV.”
- Yediot Acharonot
DVD Bonus Feature
At the End of the DayIsrael, 2000, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet BargurPublic Exhibition Beta Rental also available
Four commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a 22-month period. With great sensitivity and skill, Bargur, whose brother Zvi was among those who died, documents the ongoing attempts by these families to come to terms with the deaths of their loved ones.
Also Directed by Ayelet Bargur:
THE HOUSE ON AUGUST STREET
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