Directing
Annemarie Jacir
EN, AR, FR cinema · 23 credits
Born
17 January 1974 (age 52)
Birthplace
Bethlehem, Palestine
Also known as آن ماري جاسر
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, Writer, Executive Producer
Iyad
Director
The Translator
as Lara
Disconnect
Director
Wajib
Director, Writer
The Rendezvous
Co-Director
3000 Nights
as Inmate
When I Saw You
Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor
Horizon
Creative Producer
Haneen
Producer, Editor
Salt of This Sea
Writer, Director, Co-Producer
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Director, Screenplay
Palestine, Summer 2006
Director, Writer
A Few Crumbs For Birds
Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
Like Twenty Impossibles
Editor, Director, Producer, Writer
The Satellite Shooters
2001
The Satellite Shooters
Director, Writer