Annemarie Jacir
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 17, 1974
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Everything Is Not OK 2027
Actor
Cotton Queen 2026
Co-Producer
Palestine 36 2025
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Iyad 2024
Director
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) 2022
Director
The Translator 2021
as Lara
When I See Them, I See Us 2021
Actor
Disconnect 2020
Director
Wajib 2017
Director, Writer
The Rendezvous 2016
Co-Director
3000 Nights 2015
as Inmate
When I Saw You 2014
Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer
Horizon 2013
Creative Producer
Haneen 2011
Producer, Editor
Salt of This Sea 2008
Director, Writer, Co-Producer
Sound of the Street 2006
Director
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes 2006
Director, Screenplay
- A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes 2006
Actor, Editor
Palestine, Summer 2006 2006
Director, Writer
A Few Crumbs For Birds 2005
Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
Like Twenty Impossibles 2003
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
- A Post Oslo History
A Post Oslo History 2001
Director
- The Satellite Shooters
The Satellite Shooters 2001
Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.