---
name: "Emily Atef"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emily-atef"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T17:14:16.169229+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Emily Atef

Director. Born 1 January 1973 in Berlin, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1973, Berlin, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Atef, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q513844, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1477692/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150390

## Coming up

- *Call Me Queen* (2026-10-15), Writer

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Killing Eve*](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md) (82)

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## Biography

Emily Atef (born 6 May 1973) is a German-born French-Iranian film director and screenwriter. She moved from West Berlin to Los Angeles at the age of seven with her French-Iranian parents, later lived in France, and studied film direction at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.

Atef is known for her feature films *Molly's Way* (2005), *The Stranger in Me* (2008), *3 Days in Quiberon* (2018) and *More Than Ever* (2022). She has also directed television films and episodes, including two episodes of the series *Killing Eve* (2022) and an episode of *Tatort* (2019). Her film *3 Days in Quiberon* premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival and won seven awards at the German Film Awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Killing Eve* (2018), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Call Me Queen* (2026), Writer, Director
- *Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything* (2023), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *More Than Ever* (2022), Writer, Director
- *Jackpot* (2020), Director
- *3 Days in Quiberon* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Killing Eve* (2018), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)
- *Don't Worry, I'm Fine* (2017), Director
- *Desired Children* (2016), Director
- *Queen of the Night* (2016), Director
- *Kill Me* (2012), Writer, Director
- *The Stranger in Me* (2008), Director, Screenplay
- *Molly's Way* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Marseille* (2004), as Zelda
- *I Love You, I Kill You* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Asyl* (2004), Director
- *XX to XY: Fighting to Be Jake* (2003), Director
- *Sundays* (2003), Director
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Director, Writer
- *Untitled Farah Pahlavi Film*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Emily Atef at Berlinale 2023](https://film.one/media/person/903496/gallery-f01bae951bda.jpg) Emily Atef at Berlinale 2023 — Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Emily_Atef%2C_Berlinale_2023.jpg/1280px-Emily_Atef%2C_Berlinale_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Movie director Emily Atef at the Berlinale 2018](https://film.one/media/person/903496/gallery-2c334047e12a.jpg) Movie director Emily Atef at the Berlinale 2018 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Emily_Atef-0291.jpg/1280px-Emily_Atef-0291.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Emily Atef](https://film.one/media/person/903496/gallery-c65223be3775.jpg) Emily Atef — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Emily_Atef-0725.jpg/1280px-Emily_Atef-0725.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Movie director Emily Atef at the Berlinale 2018](https://film.one/media/person/903496/gallery-918563060703.jpg) Movie director Emily Atef at the Berlinale 2018 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Emily_Atef-0744.jpg/1280px-Emily_Atef-0744.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Movie director Emily Atef at the Berlinale 2018](https://film.one/media/person/903496/gallery-2d94570362da.jpg) Movie director Emily Atef at the Berlinale 2018 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Emily_Atef-0773.jpg/1280px-Emily_Atef-0773.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2021: Deutscher Fernsehpreis (nominated), for *Jackpot*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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