
Annemarie Jacir
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-01-17 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Bethlehem, Palestine
Annemarie Jacir
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.
Acting
(2015)
3000 Nights
as Inmate
(2006)
Crew
Palestine 36
Director, Writer
(2024)
Iyad
Director
(2022)
(2020)
Disconnect
Director
(2017)
Wajib
Director, Writer
(2016)
The Rendezvous
Co-Director
(2014)
When I Saw You
Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer
(2013)
Horizon
Creative Producer
(2008)
Salt of This Sea
Director, Writer, Co-Producer
(2006)
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Director, Screenplay
(2006)
Sound of the Street
Director
(2006)
(2005)
A Few Crumbs For Birds
Cinematography, Editor, Co-Director
(2003)
Like Twenty Impossibles
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer