Annemarie Jacir photo

Annemarie Jacir

Directing

  • Born
  • January 17, 1974
  • Place of birth
  • 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.

As actor 4

When I See Them, I See Us poster
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
The Translator poster
The Translator
2021
3000 Nights poster
3000 Nights
2015
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
2006

On the crew 20

Ramy poster
Ramy
2019
Palestine 36 poster
Palestine 36
2025
The Rendezvous poster
The Rendezvous
2016
Cotton Queen poster
Cotton Queen
2026
Horizon poster
Horizon
2013
Salt of This Sea poster
Salt of This Sea
2008
Haneen poster
Haneen
2011
Disconnect poster
Disconnect
2020
Wajib poster
Wajib
2017
When I Saw You poster
When I Saw You
2014
The Satellite Shooters
2001
A Post Oslo History
2001
A Few Crumbs For Birds poster
A Few Crumbs For Birds
2005
Palestine, Summer 2006 poster
Palestine, Summer 2006
2006
Like Twenty Impossibles poster
Like Twenty Impossibles
2003
Iyad poster
Iyad
2024
Sound of the Street poster
Sound of the Street
2006
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes poster
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
2006
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) poster
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
2022
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
2006