First female Palestinian filmmaker to open Birds Eye View film festival

Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has become the first Palestinian woman whose film will open the Birds Eye View film festival.
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The 2013 Birds Eye View film festival has announced its opening film as Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You, which tells the story of a young Palestinian boy and his mother living in a refugee camp in Jordan.

This year’s film festival will focus strongly on Arab women, and what better way to kick things off than with a film by celebrated filmmaker Jacir, who is renowned as one of the greatest filmmakers of the Arab world.

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