Annemarie Jacir
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2025Palestine 36
Director & Writer
2024Iyad
Director
2022From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Director
2020Disconnect
Director
2017Wajib
Director & Writer
2014When I Saw You
Director & Writer
2008Salt of This Sea
Director & Writer
2006An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Director & Screenplay
2006Sound of the Street
Director
2006Palestine, Summer 2006
Director & Writer
2005A Few Crumbs For Birds
Director & Writer
2003Like Twenty Impossibles
Director & Writer