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Annemarie Jacir
Bethlehem, Palestine
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…
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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
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Cotton Queen
Movie Co-Producer
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2025
Palestine 36
Movie Director
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2024
Iyad
Movie Director
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2022
From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)
Movie Director
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2021
The Translator
Movie Lara
- 2021
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2020
Disconnect
Movie Director
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2019
Ramy
TV show Director
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2017
Wajib
Movie Director
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2016
The Rendezvous
Movie Co-Director
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2015
3000 Nights
Movie Inmate
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2014
When I Saw You
Movie Director
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2013
Horizon
Movie Creative Producer
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2011
Haneen
Movie Producer
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2008
Salt of This Sea
Movie Writer
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2006
Sound of the Street
Movie Director
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2006
An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes
Movie Director
- 2006
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2006
Palestine, Summer 2006
Movie Director
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2005
A Few Crumbs For Birds
Movie Cinematography
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2003
Like Twenty Impossibles
Movie Editor
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2001
A Post Oslo History
Movie Director
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2001
The Satellite Shooters
Movie Director
