Annemarie Jacir
Known for directing · Born 17 January 1974 · 52 · Bethlehem, Palestine
24 credits
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
2019
Palestine 36
2025
Wajib
2017
The Rendezvous
2016
When I Saw You
2014
Salt of This Sea
2008
Like Twenty Impossibles
2003
A Few Crumbs For Birds
2005
A Post Oslo History
2001
The Satellite Shooters
2001
Iyad
2024
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
2022