Annemarie Jacir
Born:
1974-01-17
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.
Production
Directing
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Iyad
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Disconnect
Wajib
The Rendezvous
When I Saw You
Salt of This Sea
Sound of the Street
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Palestine, Summer 2006
A Few Crumbs For Birds
Like Twenty Impossibles
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A Post Oslo History
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The Satellite Shooters