Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 17, 1974
Place of Birth
Bethlehem, Palestine
Credits
22 titles
Annemarie Jacir
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
Cotton Queen
Co-Producer
Palestine 36
Director
Iyad
Director
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Director
The Translator
Lara
When I See Them, I See Us
Disconnect
Director
Ramy
Director
Wajib
Director
The Rendezvous
Co-Director
3000 Nights
Inmate
When I Saw You
Director
Horizon
Creative Producer
Salt of This Sea
Director
Sound of the Street
Director
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Director
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
Palestine, Summer 2006
Director
A Few Crumbs For Birds
Cinematography
Like Twenty Impossibles
Director
A Post Oslo History
Director
The Satellite Shooters
Director