Annemarie Jacir is getting ready to premiere Palestine ‘s official submission for best international feature at this year’s Oscars, but she feels like she’s already won.

“I was at a family wedding and everybody was coming up to congratulate me,” the Palestinian filmmaker laughs to The Hollywood Reporter about her movie, Venice and TIFF ‘s Palestine 36 , a project she says was a decade of work. “I was like, I feel like I won the Oscar already because everybody’s so proud of it. Whatever happens next, I don’t care.”

“Even though they had nine films to choose from this year,” she continues, “this is the only feature film that’s [shot in Palestine] in the last two years. I think it just says something to the testament of a people and what artists can do.”

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