ANNEMARIE JACIR
Annemarie Jacir
Gender: Female
Known for: Directing
Birthday: 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.
Notable work
Filmography
Production
2026·
Cotton QueenCo-Producer
2025·
Palestine 36Executive Producer, Writer, Director
2024·
IyadDirector
Director
2020·
DisconnectDirector
2019·
RamyDirector
2017·
WajibWriter, Director
2016·
The RendezvousCo-Director
2014·
When I Saw YouExecutive Producer, Editor, Writer, Director
2013·
HorizonCreative Producer
2008·
Salt of This SeaCo-Producer, Writer, Director
Writer, Director
Editor
2006·
Sound of the StreetDirector
Screenplay, Director
Writer, Director, Editor, Cinematography
Producer, Writer, Editor, Director
Writer, Director
2001·
A Post Oslo HistoryDirector