Annemarie Jacir
Born: 1974-01-17 in Bethlehem, Palestine
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Cotton Queen ... (Co-Producer)
2025
- Palestine 36 ... (Director)
2024
- Iyad ... (Director)
2022
- From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) ... (Director)
2021
- The Translator as Lara
2020
- Disconnect ... (Director)
2019
- Ramy ... (Director)
2017
- Wajib ... (Director)
2016
- The Rendezvous ... (Co-Director)
2015
- 3000 Nights as Inmate
2014
- When I Saw You ... (Director)
2013
- Horizon ... (Creative Producer)
2008
- Salt of This Sea ... (Director)
2006
- An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes ... (Director)
- Sound of the Street ... (Director)
- A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
- Palestine, Summer 2006 ... (Director)
2005
- A Few Crumbs For Birds ... (Cinematography)
2003
- Like Twenty Impossibles ... (Director)