Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jan 17, 1974 (51 years old)
Annemarie Jacir
Known For
3min
Movie
2006
A World Apart Within 15 Minutes
A woman drives her car around Jerusalem, asking Israelis for...
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.