Annemarie Jacir
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Actor
January 17, 1974 (52 years)
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
| 2025 | Cotton Queen · as Co-Producer |
| 2025 | Palestine 36 · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | When I Saw You · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Salt of This Sea · as Co-Producer |
| 2003 |
| 2020 | |
| 2012 | |
| 2011 | |
| 2003 |
| 2020 | The Translator · as LaraOn Plex |
| 2015 | 3000 Nights · as Inmate |
| 1991 | Movie Days · as Self |
| 2019 | Give Up The Ghost · as Creative Producer |
| 2016 | The Rendezvous · as Co-DirectorOn Plex |
| 2015 | Speed Sisters · as Consultant |