Annemarie Jacir
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 17, 1974 (age 52)
- Birthplace
- Bethlehem, Palestine
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.
Known For
Filmography
Palestine 36
Movie · Director
Iyad
Movie · Director
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Movie · Director
Disconnect
Movie · Director
Ramy
TV · Director · 1 ep
Wajib
Movie · Director
The Rendezvous
Movie · Co-Director
When I Saw You
Movie · Director
Salt of This Sea
Movie · Director
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Movie · Director
Sound of the Street
Movie · Director
Palestine, Summer 2006
Movie · Director
A Few Crumbs For Birds
Movie · Director
Like Twenty Impossibles
Movie · Director
A Post Oslo History
Movie · Director
The Satellite Shooters
Movie · Director