---
name: "Annemarie Jacir"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/annemarie-jacir"
fi1m_id: "annemarie-jacir"
imdb_id: "nm1486975"
tmdb_id: 56376
wikidata_id: "Q2917353"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "17 January 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-24T12:02:13.557755+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Annemarie Jacir

## Identity

Annemarie Jacir

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/annemarie-jacir
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** annemarie-jacir
- **IMDb ID:** nm1486975
- **TMDB ID:** 56376
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2917353
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemarie_Jacir, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2917353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56376

Producer and director. Born 17 January 1974 in Bethlehem, Palestine.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 17 January 1974, Bethlehem, Palestine
- **Also known as:** آن ماري جاسر‎
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemarie_Jacir, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2917353, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56376

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Palestine 36*](https://film.one/film/palestine-36.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Annemarie Jacir is a Palestinian director and writer. Born on 17 January 1974 in Bethlehem, she received an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2002 and has worked in independent cinema since the late 1990s. She is the founder of Philistine Films.

Her short film *Like Twenty Impossibles* (2003) was the first Arab short selected for the Cannes Film Festival and received a Student Academy Award nomination. Her feature debut *Salt of This Sea* (2008) was the first directed by a Palestinian woman and Palestine’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film. *When I Saw You* (2012) and *Wajib* (2017) were also selected as Palestine’s Oscar entries. She directed and wrote *Palestine 36* (2025).

*Sources: theguardian.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Palestine 36* (2025), Fi1m 73, Writer, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/palestine-36.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cotton Queen* (2026), Co-Producer
- *Palestine 36* (2025), Director, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/palestine-36.md)
- *Iyad* (2024), Director
- *From Palestine with Love (Postcard from the Future)* (2022), Director
- *The Translator* (2021), as Lara
- *When I See Them, I See Us* (2021), Actor
- *Disconnect* (2020), Director
- *Ramy* (2019), series, Director
- *Wajib* (2017), Director, Writer
- *The Rendezvous* (2016), Co-Director
- *3000 Nights* (2015), as Inmate
- *When I Saw You* (2014), Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Editor
- *Horizon* (2013), Creative Producer
- *Haneen* (2011), Producer, Editor
- *Salt of This Sea* (2008), Writer, Director, Co-Producer
- *Sound of the Street* (2006), Director
- *An Explanation: And Then Burn the Ashes* (2006), Director, Screenplay
- *A World Apart Within 15 Minutes* (2006), as Editor
- *Palestine, Summer 2006* (2006), Director, Writer
- *A Few Crumbs For Birds* (2005), Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
- *Like Twenty Impossibles* (2003), Editor, Director, Producer, Writer
- *A Post Oslo History* (2001), Director
- *The Satellite Shooters* (2001), Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Annemarie Jacir](https://film.one/media/person/3783479/gallery-b1d35dddcc29.jpg) Annemarie Jacir — Zafer, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Annemarie_Jacir_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251205_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Annemarie_Jacir_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251205_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Annemarie Jacir at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251205](https://film.one/media/person/3783479/gallery-0afa127865fe.jpg) Annemarie Jacir at the 2025 Red Sea Film Festival 20251205 — Zafer, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Annemarie_Jacir_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251205_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Annemarie_Jacir_at_the_2025_Red_Sea_Film_Festival_20251205_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- honorary doctorate of Artois University 2022: honorary doctorate of Artois University (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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