Emily Atef (born 6 May, 1973; Berlin) is a German filmmaker based in Berlin. At the age of 7, Atef moved from Berlin to Los Angeles with her French-Iranian parents and her brother the drummer Cyril Atef. She was 13 when they moved to France, where Atef finished school, and later she went to London to work as an actor in the London theater scene. Atef returned to Berlin to study film direction at the prestigious Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Her first feature-length film Molly's Way which, like her 2 following feature films was co-authored by Esther Bernstorff received an...
