Annemarie Jacir
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.

Top 10 collaborators

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Iyad (2024)
Director
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) (2022)
Director
Wajib (2017)
Director | Writer
The Rendezvous (2016)
Co-Director
When I Saw You (2014)
Director | Writer | Editor | Executive Producer
Horizon (2013)
Creative Producer
Salt of This Sea (2008)
Director | Writer | Co-Producer
Sound of the Street (2006)
Director
Like Twenty Impossibles (2003)
Director | Writer | Editor | Producer