Annemarie Jacir

52, from Bethlehem, Palestine

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Biography

Annemarie JACIR (1974, Palestina) has written, directed and produced over sixteen films. 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.

Timeline

2027Future projects

  • Poster for Everything Is Not OK

    (Unknown)

2026Aged 52

  • Poster for Cotton Queen

    Co-Producer

2025Aged 51

  • Poster for Palestine 36

    Executive Producer

2024Aged 50

  • Poster for Iyad

    Director

2022Aged 48

  • Poster for From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)

    Director

2021Aged 47

  • Poster for When I See Them, I See Us

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for The Translator

    Lara

2020Aged 46

  • Poster for Disconnect

    Director

2017Aged 43

  • Poster for Wajib

    Writer

2016Aged 42

  • Poster for The Rendezvous

    Co-Director

2015Aged 41

  • Poster for 3000 Nights

    Inmate

2014Aged 40

  • Poster for When I Saw You

    Executive Producer

2013Aged 39

  • Poster for Horizon

    Creative Producer

2011Aged 37

  • Poster for Haneen

    Editor

2008Aged 34

  • Poster for Salt of This Sea

    Co-Producer

2006Aged 32

2005Aged 31

  • Poster for A Few Crumbs For Birds

    Writer

2003Aged 29

  • Poster for Like Twenty Impossibles

    Producer

2001Aged 27

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