Annemarie Jacir

Known for DirectingBorn 1974-01-17 (age 52)Bethlehem, Palestine

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Palestine 36

A Post Oslo History

The Satellite Shooters

Ramy

Wajib

When I Saw You

A Few Crumbs For Birds

3000 Nights

The Translator

Salt of This Sea

The Rendezvous

Like Twenty Impossibles

Cotton Queen

Iyad

From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)

When I See Them, I See Us

Disconnect

Horizon

A World Apart Within 15 Minutes

An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes

Sound of the Street

Palestine, Summer 2006