Director
Annemarie Jacir
52 years · Bethlehem, Palestine · 17 films
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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Filmography 16
Palestine 36
2025 · Director, Writer
On Philo
Iyad
2024 · Director
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
2022 · Director
The Translator
2021 · Lara
On Plex
When I See Them, I See Us
2021 · Actor
Disconnect
2020 · Director
Wajib
2017 · Director, Writer
3000 Nights
2015 · Inmate
On Philo
When I Saw You
2014 · Director, Writer
On MUBI
Haneen
2011 · Producer, Editor
Salt of This Sea
2008 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Sound of the Street
2006 · Director
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
2006 · Director, Screenplay
Palestine, Summer 2006
2006 · Director, Writer
A Few Crumbs For Birds
2005 · Editor, Director
Like Twenty Impossibles
2003 · Director, Writer