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Emily Atef (; born May 6, 1973) is a German-born French-Iranian filmmaker, most known for her films 3 Days in Quiberon (2018) and More Than Ever (2022).
Atef's next project for the big screen was 3 Days in Quiberon. Written and directed by Atef, it depicts three emotional days for one of Europe's biggest stars and icons, Romy Schneider. 3 Days in Quiberon had its world premiere in the competition section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival and competed for the Golden Bear. 3 Days in Quiberon was the big winner at the German Academy Awards in 2018 taking home seven Lolas: The Golden Lola for Best Film as well as statuettes for Best Director for Atef, Lead Actress Marie Bäumer, Supporting Actors Birgit Minichmayr and Robert Gwisdek, DoP Thomas W. Kiennast, and Composers Christoph M. Kaiser and Julian Maas.
The film was followed by Atef's first French film, More Than Ever ( Plus Que Jamais), starring Vicky Krieps and Gaspard Ulliel in his last cinematic role. The film premiered in the section Un Certain Regard at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The 75th Festival de Cannes: Horaires des Projections Screenings Guide . In: festival-cannes.com, (access date May 23, 2022). More Than Ever was critically acclaimed: Robert Abele for the Los Angeles Times wrote, "director and co-writer Emily Atef's thoughtful character study, anchored by one of the current film landscape's great actors, Phantom Thread
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (German: Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen) is Atef's first novel adaptation, based on the novel of the same name by Daniela Krien who also co-adapted the novel with Atef for the screen. The film starring Marlene Burow and Felix Kramer is set in the summer of 1990 in the former East Germany, and follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic horse breeder twice her age. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 17 February 2023.
Atef's prolific body of work also contains several films for TV and streaming, among them TV dramas Wunschkinder written by the Grimme-Preis winner Dorothee Schön and produced by X Filme Creative Pool, Königin der Nacht (Queen of the Night) and Macht euch keine Sorgen (Don't worry, I'm fine). She was also responsible for the black comedy episode for Germany's oldest and most acclaimed crime series Tatort, Tatort: Falscher Hase (Run Rabbit Run) that she co-wrote and directed, inspired by the Coen Brothers' film Fargo. Shortly after she directed the thriller Jackpot, nominated for the renowned German TV award Goldene Kamera.
In 2022, Atef directed 2 episodes of the 4th and last season of the black comedy series Killing Eve, Episode 5 Don't Get Attached. and Episode 6 Oh Goodie, I'm the Winner, which was the best-rated episode of the season.
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