Director
Annemarie Jacir
January 17, 1974 · 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.
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Full filmography · 18
Palestine 36
Director and Writer
20257.8
Iyad
Director
2024
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Director
2022
The Translator
as Lara
2021
When I See Them, I See Us
cast
2021
Disconnect
Director
2020
Wajib
Director and Writer
20177.2
3000 Nights
as Inmate
20156.2
When I Saw You
Director and Writer
20147
Salt of This Sea
Writer and Director
20085.8
Sound of the Street
Director
2006
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Director
2006