Annemarie Jacir
Annemarie Jacir

Annemarie Jacir

Jan 17, 1974 (51 years old)

Overview

Birthday
Jan 17, 1974

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

3000 Nights
1h 43m
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Movie 2015

3000 Nights

Iman, a young newly wed Palestinian bride, is arrested and...

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3min
DOLBY
Movie 2006

A World Apart Within 15 Minutes

A woman drives her car around Jerusalem, asking Israelis for...