3 Days in Quiberon had its world premiere in the competition section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival[14] and competed for the Golden Bear.

3 Days in Quiberon was the big winner at the German Academy Awards[15] 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.

[16] 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's Vicky Krieps, is to eschew sentimentality and foreground a search for a new, unexplored peace.

"[17] Writing for Indiewire, Steph Green said, "Atef bypasses the inevitable funeral and instead closes off with what is surely one of the best sex scenes in recent cinematic memory.

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.