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Annemarie Jacir

Director

Annemarie Jacir

Directing
2017 — present · 2 films
Born
17 January 1974 · age 52
From
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 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.

Career Signature

How Annemarie Jacir’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.