Annemarie Jacir

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1974-01-17 (51 years old)

Place of Birth

Bethlehem, Palestine

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.

Production

2008

Salt of This Sea

as Director

2008

2014

When I Saw You

as Director

2014

2014

2014

When I Saw You

as Executive Producer

2017

Wajib

as Director

2017

Wajib

as Writer

2016

The Rendezvous

as Co-Director

2020

Disconnect

as Director

2013

Horizon

as Creative Producer

2005

A Few Crumbs For Birds

as Cinematography

2005

2008

Salt of This Sea

as Co-Producer

2006

2024

Iyad

as Director

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Palestine 36

as Director

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Palestine 36

as Writer

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