Annemarie Jacir (Arabic: ุขู ู ุงุฑู ุฌุงุณุฑ; 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 Palestineโs 2008 Oscar Entry for Foreign Language Film. The much awarded When I Saw You was Palestineโs 2012 Oscar Entry. Wajib (2017) is Jacirโs third feature film.
A woman drives her car around Jerusalem, asking Israelis for...