Personal Info
Birthday
January 17, 1974
Place of Birth
Bethlehem, Palestine
Known For
Directing
Annemarie Jacir
Biography
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.
Directed Movies (13)
7.8
Palestine 36
Movie2025
No Backdrop
0.0
Iyad
Movie2024
No Backdrop
0.0
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Movie2022
No Backdrop
0.0
Disconnect
Movie2020
7.3
Ramy
TV Series2019
7.2
Wajib
Movie2017
7.0
When I Saw You
Movie2014
5.8
Salt of This Sea
Movie2008
No Backdrop
0.0
Sound of the Street
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Palestine, Summer 2006
Movie2006
No Backdrop
7.0
A Few Crumbs For Birds
Movie2005
5.3
Like Twenty Impossibles
Movie2003
