Person
Annemarie Jacir
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jan 17, 1974
- From
- 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.
Images
Credits
3000 Nights
The Translator
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
When I See Them, I See Us
Salt of This Sea
When I Saw You
Like Twenty Impossibles
Wajib
The Rendezvous
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Disconnect
Horizon
A Few Crumbs For Birds
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Sound of the Street
Iyad
Palestine 36
Palestine, Summer 2006