Annemarie Jacir
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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Films (23)
Everything Is Not OK
2027
Cotton Queen
2026 · Co-Producer
Palestine 36
2025 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Iyad
2024 · Director
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
2022 · Director
Le traducteur
2021 · Lara
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
Disconnect
2020 · Director
Wajib
2017 · Director, Writer
À la Poursuite du Manuscrit Sacré
2016 · Co-Director
3000 Nuits
2015 · Inmate
When I Saw You
2014 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor
Horizon
2013 · Creative Producer
Haneen
2011 · Producer, Editor
Le sel de la mer
2008 · Writer, Director, Co-Producer
Sound of the Street
2006 · Director
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
2006 · Director, Screenplay
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
2006 · Editor
Palestine, Summer 2006
2006 · Director, Writer
A Few Crumbs For Birds
2005 · Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
Like Twenty Impossibles
2003 · Editor, Director, Producer, Writer
A Post Oslo History
2001 · Director
The Satellite Shooters
2001 · Director, Writer
