Annemarie Jacir
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 17, 1974, Bethlehem, Palestine
- Movies
- 19
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2021 | The Translator | Lara |
| 2021 | When I See Them, I See Us | |
| 2015 | 3000 Nights | Inmate |
| 2006 | A World Apart Within 15 Minutes |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | Palestine 36 | Director, Writer |
| 2024 | Iyad | Director |
| 2022 | From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) | Director |
| 2020 | Disconnect | Director |
| 2017 | Wajib | Director, Writer |
| 2014 | When I Saw You | Director, Writer |
| 2011 | Haneen | Producer |
| 2008 | Salt of This Sea | Writer, Director |
| 2006 | Sound of the Street | Director |
| 2006 | An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes | Director, Screenplay |
| 2006 | Palestine, Summer 2006 | Director, Writer |
| 2005 | A Few Crumbs For Birds | Director, Writer |
| 2003 | Like Twenty Impossibles | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2001 | A Post Oslo History | Director |
| 2001 | The Satellite Shooters | Director, Writer |
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