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.
Directed
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Ramy (2019) — Director
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Palestine 36 (2025) — Director
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Wajib (2017) — Director
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When I Saw You (2014) — Director
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Salt of This Sea (2008) — Director
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Like Twenty Impossibles (2003) — Director
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A Few Crumbs For Birds (2005) — Director
- A Post Oslo History (2001) — Director
- The Satellite Shooters (2001) — Director
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An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes (2006) — Director
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Disconnect (2020) — Director
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From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future) (2022) — Director
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Sound of the Street (2006) — Director
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Iyad (2024) — Director
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Palestine, Summer 2006 (2006) — Director
