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Wajib (2017)

Mimino (1977) dir. Georgiy Daneliya

Celebrating Annemarie Jacir!

“I like to be rooted in real people and real situations. Yet at the same time indulge in the freedom of what cinema is about: our dreams, our ability to change or escape.”

Wajib (2017) "Ms. Jacir is a thrifty filmmaker; there’s nothing frilly in this movie. But she is also a sensitive and imaginative and resourceful one. The film’s final scene, a lyrical sunset that ends with a nearly four-minute unbroken shot in which the father and son converse with amity and resolution, is a fine testimony to the director’s powers." Read more in the New York Times' Review: In ‘Wajib,’ a Father and Son Trek Through Nazareth.

When I Saw You (2012)

"Like so many people who have been displaced, the hardest part is standing somewhere and actually seeing it; looking into the distance and seeing a land you recognize and know so intimately, which has now been denied to you. And trying to wrap your brain around the stupidity of borders, the illogicality of human beings being separated from each other because someone now says there is a line in the earth there called a “border”…." Read more in Filmmaker Magazine's Five Questions with When I Saw You Director Annemarie Jacir.

Salt of This Sea (2008)

"What struck me more than anything in the film is that Jacir’s imaginative creation is not imprisoned in lamentation over the loss; it transcends historical time, stepping to the realm of history as mythical creation." Read more in AL JADID's Love and Tragedy in Conflict: "Salt of This Sea".

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