Annemarie Jacir
Directing
- Born
- January 17, 1974 (age 52) · 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.
Known for
Palestine 36
October 31, 2025
Wajib
August 20, 2017
The Rendezvous
October 2, 2016
When I Saw You
June 6, 2014
Salt of This Sea
September 3, 2008
Like Twenty Impossibles
May 11, 2003
Cotton Queen
April 23, 2026
A Few Crumbs For Birds
August 21, 2005
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
July 5, 2006
Disconnect
May 12, 2020
Horizon
June 22, 2013
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
August 13, 2022
Behind the camera19
- 2026Cotton Queen Co-Producer
- 2025Palestine 36 Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- 2024Iyad Director
- 2022From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) Director
- 2020Disconnect Director
- 2017Wajib Director, Writer
- 2016The Rendezvous Co-Director
- 2014When I Saw You Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer
- 2013Horizon Creative Producer
- 2011Haneen