Annemarie Jacir

Birthday:: 01/17/1974
Place of birth:: Bethlehem, Palestine:
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.

Credits

	المترجم (2021) as Lara
	When I See Them, I See Us (2021) as
	٣٠٠٠ ليلة (2015) as Inmate
	A World Apart Within 15 Minutes (2006) as

	ملكة القطن (2026) Co-Producer
	Palestine 36 (2025) Director
	Palestine 36 (2025) Writer
	Palestine 36 (2025) Executive Producer
	Iyad (2024) Director
	From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) (2022) Director
	Disconnect (2020) Director
	واجب (2017) Director
	واجب (2017) Writer
	The Rendezvous (2016) Co-Director
	لما شفتك (2014) Director
	لما شفتك (2014) Writer
	لما شفتك (2014) Editor
	لما شفتك (2014) Executive Producer
	Horizon (2013) Creative Producer
	ملح هذا البحر (2008) Director
	ملح هذا البحر (2008) Writer
	ملح هذا البحر (2008) Co-Producer
	Sound of the Street (2006) Director
	An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes (2006) Director
	An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes (2006) Screenplay
	A World Apart Within 15 Minutes (2006) Editor
	Palestine, Summer 2006 (2006) Director
	Palestine, Summer 2006 (2006) Writer
	Quelques miettes pour les oiseaux (2005) Cinematography
	Quelques miettes pour les oiseaux (2005) Editor
	Quelques miettes pour les oiseaux (2005) Director
	Quelques miettes pour les oiseaux (2005) Writer
	كأننا عشرون مستحيل (2003) Director
	كأننا عشرون مستحيل (2003) Writer
	كأننا عشرون مستحيل (2003) Editor
	كأننا عشرون مستحيل (2003) Producer
	A Post Oslo History (2001) Director
	The Satellite Shooters (2001) Director
	The Satellite Shooters (2001) Writer