Annemarie Jacir

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1974-01-17 (50 years old)

Place of Birth Bethlehem, Palestine

Also Known As آن ماري جاسر‎, 安娜玛丽·雅西尔

Annemarie Jacir

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.

Known For

Director

2024
Iyad

as Director

2020
Disconnect

as Director

2019
Ramy

as Director

2017
Wajib

as Director

2016
The Rendezvous

as Co-Director

2014
When I Saw You

as Director

2008
Salt of This Sea

as Director

2006
2005
A Few Crumbs For Birds

as Co-Director

2003

Writer

2017
Wajib

as Writer

2014
When I Saw You

as Writer

2013
Horizon

as Creative Producer

2008

Editor

2014
When I Saw You

as Editor

Producer

2014
When I Saw You

as Executive Producer

2008
Salt of This Sea

as Co-Producer

2003

Crew

2005
A Few Crumbs For Birds

as Cinematography

Actor

2015
3000 Nights

as Inmate