Emily Atef

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Emily Atef at the Berlinale 2018

Emily Atef (born May 6, 1973 in West Berlin ) is a German-French director and author . She has lived in Berlin since 2001.

Life

Emily Atef was born in West Berlin as the daughter of an Iranian and a Frenchwoman . She has an older brother. When Atef was seven, she moved to Los Angeles with her parents . At the age of 13 she was sent to school in France, where she finished school in 1993 with a Baccalauréat . For a while she worked as an actress in London. She had her only film role in 2004 in Marseille with Angela Schanelec . In 2001 Atef began studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin , which she completed in 2008.

Her first feature- length film Molly's Way was awarded the German Film Award for Best Screenplay at the Munich Film Festival, which she received together with co-author Esther Bernstorff . The film also received the special prize of the jury of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata . Her second feature film, The Stranger in Me with Susanne Wolff , which is about a mother with postpartum depression, premiered at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes and also received several awards, including the Best Director at Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award for the best film at the São Paulo International Film Festival and various others. Her third film, Kill Me , was named Best European Film at the Bradford International Film Festival .

For ARD, Atef shot her first TV film Queen of the Night in 2016, a family drama for ARD in the Black Forest. In the same year, Atef again staged a true story for ARD Wunschkinder about a couple who want to adopt a child in Russia (written by Dorothee Schön , produced by X Films Creative Pool ). Both films, Queen of the Night and Desired Children , were nominated for the 2018 Grimme Prize. In 2017, Atef directed the TV drama Don't Worry! for WDR / ARD, a film about a father who finds out that his 19-year-old son joined IS in Syria. The film premiered at the 51st Hof Film Festival in autumn 2017 and will be broadcast on ARD in 2018.

Atef wrote and directed the feature film 3 Days in Quiberon (2018). The film is inspired by real events in the life of actress Romy Schneider (portrayed by Marie Bäumer ) and shows a portrait in the tension between private and public person. The German-Austrian-French co-production premiered at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival , where the film was invited to the competition for the Golden Bear . 3 days in Quiberon , however, was not awarded. At the awarding of the German Film Prize in the same year , Atef's directorial work received seven awards, including in the categories of film, directing and for the actors Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr and Robert Gwisdek .

Filmography

Atef at the Berlinale 2018

Director

actress

  • 2004: Marseille

Awards

Web links

Commons : Emily Atef  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Another festival prize for Emily Atef's “Molly's Way” . March 19, 2006. Retrieved on December 2, 2017.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.welt.de  
  2. ↑ Queen of the Night . Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 15, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daserste.de
  3. ↑ "It shouldn't be a film about adoption" | FilmWednesday on the First . Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 15, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.daserste.de
  4. ↑ Series boom does not stop at Grimme. In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film, January 17, 2018, accessed January 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Start of shooting for the WDR / ARD family drama “Don't worry” . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ DON'T WORRY . October 2017. Archived from the original on January 12, 2018. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 11, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hofer-filmtage.com
personal data
SURNAME Atef, Emily
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French director and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH West Berlin