Wikio - Annemarie Jacir

Thessaloniki focuses on Middle East (Variety.com)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:07:13 GMT

Other films in the spotlight are: “Aquarium” (Genenet Al-Asmak), by Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah; “Salt of This Sea” (Milh Hadha Al-Bahr), by Palestine’s Annemarie Jacir; “Waltz With Bashir,” by Israeli director Ari Folman; Iraqi director Mohamed Al-Daraji’s documentary “War, Love, God and Madness” and his feature “Dreams (Ahlaam)”; “American East,” by U.S.-based Egyptian director...

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WOMEN AT CANNES 2008 - Kim Voynar comments exclusively for AWFJ (Alliance of Women Film Journalists)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:57:25 GMT

... Un Certain Regard offered Kelly Reichardt’s “Wendy and Lucy,” starring Michelle Williams, and Annemarie Jacir’s “Salt of this Sea.” “La Mujer sin Cabeza” divided critics at Cannes; the film is a dreamy abstraction about a woman who gets distracted by her cell phone while driving and hits … something. She’s not sure if she hit a dog, a person, or just a bump in the road, but she doesn’t...

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Remi Kanazi - Poets for Palestine book is released (Palestine Blogs)

Wed, 21 May 2008 08:00:18 GMT

This is the first anthology to bring together poetry, hip hop, spoken word, and art to pay tribute to Palestine; included are: Mahmoud Darwish, Amiri Baraka, Suheir Hammad, Patricia Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, D. H. Melhem, Nathalie Handal, E. Ethelbert Miller, Tahani Salah, Ragtop from the Philistines, the N.O.M.A.D.S., Fawzia Afzal Khan, Annemarie Jacir, Ibtisam Barakat, Kathy Engel, Junichi...

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Cannes. Salt of This Sea. (GreenCine Daily)

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:46:04 GMT

"Boldly grabbing hold of the central issue at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict - namely, whose land it is that is being contended by both sides - Salt of This Sea will certainly make people talk, even while it fails to fully involve them in its artificial drama," writes Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter . "Making her first feature film, Palestinian Annemarie Jacir shows...

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Palestinian helmer cancels premiere (Variety.com)

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:53:06 GMT

Film News: Jacir's 'Salt of This Sea' will play at Cannes -- Palestinian helmer Annemarie Jacir, whose debut feature, "Salt of This Sea," will play in Un Certain Regard at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, has had to cancel the world preem of her pic after she was denied entry into the Palestinian territories by Israeli authorities.

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Old hands, novice directors vie for Cannes diversity award - Feature (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Tue, 06 May 2008 05:04:04 GMT

... of Disco Pigs fame. The span of the movies on offer also includes novice Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir's Milh Hadha al-Bahr (Salt of This Sea), a romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences on travelling back home. Veteran US director Abel Ferrara's documentary Chelsea On the Rocks starring Ethan Hawke and Bijou Phillips is bound to grab the attention of...

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ENTRY DENIED: Palestinian Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, a 21st century casualty of Israeli ethnic cleansing- from Jordanian Indie Films (Palestine Blogs)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:23:00 GMT

http://jordnianfilms.blogspot.com/2008/04/entry-denied-palestinian-filmmakers.html from Jordanian Indie Films A collection of independent Arab short films and articles by filmmakers...

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ENTRY DENIED: Palestinian Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, a 21st century casualty of Israeli ethnic cleansing (Palestine Blogs)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:15:18 GMT

WE'VE JUST RECEIVED THIS SAD NEWS FROM PALESTINIAN FILMMAKER ANNEMARIE JACIR, THE DIRECTOR OF SALT OF THIS SEAS, THE FILM STARRING SUHAIR HAMMAD. Imagine, in the 21st Century, a Palestinians with a...

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Suhair Hammad goes to Cannes with 1st Feature Film for Annemarie Jacir (Palestine Blogs)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:04:49 GMT

Ammani-born Suhair Hammad is starring in Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir's first feature film Salt of this Sea ( Le Sel De La Mer / Milh Hada Al-Bahar). The film has been officially selected to...

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Un Certain Regard (Fin de Cinema)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:53:00 GMT

... voir ] - dir. Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige - with Catherine Deneuve - Le Sel de la mer - dir. Annemarie Jacir - Los Bastardos - dir. Amat Escalante - A Festa da Menina Morta - dir. Matheus Nachtergaele (an actor from City of God making his directorial debut) - Afterschool - dir. Antonio Campos - Tokyo Sonata - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa ( Doppelganger , Bright Future ) - Ting che...

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