Annemarie Jacir
Director · Actor · WriterAnnemarie 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR4
DIRECTOR15
Palestine 36
2025
Director
Iyad
2024
Director
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
2022
Director
Disconnect
2020
Director
Wajib
2017
Director
The Rendezvous
2016
Co-Director
When I Saw You
2014
Director
Salt of This Sea
2008
Director
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
2006
Director
Sound of the Street
2006
Director
Palestine, Summer 2006
2006
Director
A Few Crumbs For Birds
2005
Director
Like Twenty Impossibles
2003
Director
- A Post Oslo History
A Post Oslo History
2001
Director
- The Satellite Shooters
The Satellite Shooters
2001
Director
WRITER10
Palestine 36
2025
Writer
Wajib
2017
Writer
When I Saw You
2014
Writer
Horizon
2013
Creative Producer
Salt of This Sea
2008
Writer
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
2006
Screenplay
Palestine, Summer 2006
2006
Writer
A Few Crumbs For Birds
2005
Writer
Like Twenty Impossibles
2003
Writer
- The Satellite Shooters
The Satellite Shooters
2001
Writer
