Annemarie Jacir

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

Ramy

The Rendezvous

Salt of This Sea

Palestine 36

Wajib

When I Saw You

A Few Crumbs For Birds

From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)

Like Twenty Impossibles

An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes