When Annemarie Jacir pitched her thesis film at graduate school some 20 years ago, her advisor told her the best place for her script was in the garbage. It was an ambitious project for the young ...

Born in Bethlehem and raised in Saudi Arabia, U.S.-educated Annemarie Jacir demurs when someone calls her the face of Palestinian cinema. Modest though she is, Jacir has been listed as one of 25 ...

with leading Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir in the director’s seat. “The script was really funny, but it was also something I hadn’t seen before,” she explains. “We’ve never ...

Annemarie Jacir had no trouble dodging that bullet in Berlin. Last month, the Bethlehem-born writer-director served on the competition jury of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival ...

“The Oblivion Theory” is a new feature by renowned director Annemarie Jacir. “DVNA” is a haunting eco-thriller where a tech mogul’s quest to expose a Danube pollution scandal ripples ...

EXCLUSIVE: MAD Distribution, the pan-Arab releasing arm of Cairo-based pan-Arab film company MAD Solutions, has acquired all Middle East and North African rights to Annemarie Jacir's Palestine 36.

Annemarie Jacir’s third film, Wajib, a wry comedy set in the run up to Christmas in Nazareth, premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival before heading to, this week TIFF. The film pairs ...

Jacir, whose previous feature credits include Salt of the Sea, When I Saw You, Wajib and episodes of Ramy, has been working on the project since before the pandemic. "For years I've dreamed to ...

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir has been a pioneer of Arab cinema. Her 2003 “Like Twenty Impossibles” was the first short by a Palestinian director to be selected ...

Prominent Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir (“Wajib”) is developing a TV series based on bestelling novel “Mornings in Jenin” by Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa. Abulhawa’s ...

A father-son duo team in Annemarie Jacir's lighthearted take on life in Nazareth. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent But for the grouchy, battered Volvo-driving 60-something Abu, the director ...

Prominent Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir (“Wajib”) is developing a TV series based on bestelling novel “Mornings in Jenin” by Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa. Abulhawa’s ...