Person
Annemarie Jacir
Director · Writer · Producer· 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
12 credits across 3 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Cotton Queen | Co-Producer | Film |
| 2025 | Palestine 36 | Director | Film |
| 2025 | Palestine 36 | Writer | Film |
| 2025 | Palestine 36 | Executive Producer | Film |
| 2017 | Wajib | Director | Film |
| 2017 | Wajib | Writer | Film |
| 2014 | When I Saw You | Director | Film |
| 2014 | When I Saw You | Writer | Film |
| 2014 | When I Saw You | Executive Producer | Film |
| 2008 | Salt of This Sea | Director | Film |
| 2008 | Salt of This Sea | Writer | Film |
| 2008 | Salt of This Sea | Co-Producer | Film |
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