- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 17, 1974
- Place of Birth
- Bethlehem, Palestine
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.
Filmography
movieCotton Queen
2026 · Co-Producer
moviePalestine 36
2025 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
movieIyad
2024 · Director
movieFrom Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
2022 · Director
movieThe Translator
2021 · Lara
movieWhen I See Them, I See Us
2021
movieDisconnect
2020 · Director
tvRamy
2019 · Director
movieWajib
2017 · Director, Writer
movieThe Rendezvous
2016 · Co-Director
movie3000 Nights
2015 · Inmate
movieWhen I Saw You
2014 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor
movieHorizon
2013 · Creative Producer
movieSalt of This Sea
2008 · Writer, Director, Co-Producer
movieSound of the Street
2006 · Director
movieAn Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
2006 · Director, Screenplay
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
movieA World Apart Within 15 Minutes
2006 · , Editor
moviePalestine, Summer 2006
2006 · Director, Writer
movieA Few Crumbs For Birds
2005 · Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
movieLike Twenty Impossibles
2003 · Editor, Director, Producer, Writer
A Post Oslo History
movieA Post Oslo History
2001 · Director
The Satellite Shooters
movieThe Satellite Shooters
2001 · Director, Writer