Person
Annemarie Jacir
Directing · Born 1974-01-17 · Bethlehem, Palestine
Biography
Annemarie Jacir (Arabic: آن ماري جاسر; born 17 January 1974; Bethlehem) is a Palestinian filmmaker. Her short film Like Twenty Impossibles (2003) was the first Arab short film in history to be an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Her second film Salt Of This Sea (2008), garnered fourteen international awards. It was the first feature film directed by a Palestinian woman and Palestine’s 2008 Oscar Entry for Foreign Language Film. The much awarded When I Saw You was Palestine’s 2012 Oscar Entry. Wajib (2017) is Jacir’s third feature film.
Known for
Ramy
Director
Palestine 36
Director
Horizon
Creative Producer
Cotton Queen
Co-Producer
The Rendezvous
Co-Director
Salt of This Sea
Director
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
The Translator
Lara
3000 Nights
Inmate
Wajib
Director
Filmography
- 2026Cotton QueenCo-Producer
- 2025Palestine 36Director
- 2024IyadDirector
- 2022From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)Director
- 2021The TranslatorLara
- 2021When I See Them, I See Us
- 2020DisconnectDirector
- 2019RamyDirector
- 2017WajibDirector
- 2016The RendezvousCo-Director
- 20153000 NightsInmate
- 2014When I Saw YouDirector
- 2013HorizonCreative Producer
- 2008Salt of This SeaDirector
- 2006Sound of the StreetDirector
- 2006An Explanation: And Then Burn the AshesDirector
- 2006A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
- 2006Palestine, Summer 2006Director
- 2005A Few Crumbs For BirdsCinematography
- 2003Like Twenty ImpossiblesDirector
- 2001A Post Oslo HistoryDirector
- 2001The Satellite ShootersDirector
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