/Annemarie Jacir

director

born 1974 Bethlehem, Palestine

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“I really don’t want to explain anything in my works. It’s not a documentary. There’s so much injustice in Palestine, but I’m not making that kind of film.  I do like to focus on the very specific and the personal. Everything else comes out naturally because these conversations are real, these relationships are very real. It’s just there.”

She grew up in the Arab world, studied in the US and worked for a while in Hollywood but did not like the way that films were made there.  She lived in Europe and now lives in Haifa, Israel.  She has written directed and produced over sixteen films, three of them features, has writes poetry and other works, curates film festivals and mentors a new generation of Arab filmmakers.