Annemarie Jacir
Directing
1974-01-17 · Bethlehem, Palestine
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.
Filmography
TheatersEverything Is Not OK
2027 · Movie
Cotton Queen
2026 · Movie
Palestine 36
2025 · Movie
Iyad
2024 · Movie
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
2022 · Movie
The Translator
2021 · Movie
When I See Them, I See Us
2021 · Movie
Disconnect
2020 · Movie
Ramy
2019 · Series
Wajib
2017 · Movie
The Rendezvous
2016 · Movie
3000 Nights
2015 · Movie
When I Saw You
2014 · Movie
Horizon
2013 · Movie
Haneen
2011 · Movie
Salt of This Sea
2008 · Movie
Sound of the Street
2006 · Movie
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
2006 · Movie
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
2006 · Movie
Palestine, Summer 2006
2006 · Movie
A Few Crumbs For Birds
2005 · Movie
Like Twenty Impossibles
2003 · Movie
A Post Oslo History
2001 · Movie
The Satellite Shooters
2001 · Movie