Salt of this Sea
Salt of this Sea
Annemarie Jacir
Annemarie Jacir’s award-winning debut is a road movie and a visitation to the land of her parents: Palestine.
Soraya, 28, born and raised in Brooklyn, decides to return to Palestine, a country from which her family was exiled in 1948. When she arrives in Ramallah, she tries unsuccessfully to get her grandparents’ savings back from the bank. Together with the young Emad, she hatches a plan that eventually becomes a trail through the history of a lost Palestine.
Annemarie Jacir
Born in Bethlehem in 1975, Annemarie Jacir grew up in Saudi Arabia, completing her education in the US. The co-founder of Philistine Films, which produces films from the Arab world and Iran, is regarded as a representative of the Arab New Wave. Her film When I Saw You was the Palestinian entry for the 2013 Foreign Language Oscar. Her poems and short stories have been published in literary magazines and her films have been screened and won awards at numerous festivals.
Films by Annemarie Jacir
Palästina 36 2025 | When I Saw You 2013 | Salt of this Sea 2008 | A Few Crumbs for the Birds (Short) 2005 | Like Twenty Impossibles (Short) 2003 | The Satellite Shooters (Short) 2001 | A Post Oslo History (Short) 1999
