Ester Amrami was born in Israel and trained in Directing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam. Her debut feature Anderswo (2014, Dirk Manthey Film/RBB/MDR), which she also wrote, announced her as a major new voice in German-language cinema: it premiered in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino at the Berlinale, where it received the DFJW-Preis Dialogue en perspective, and went on to win Best Director and Best Film at the Forum of Independents at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Best Film at the Kiev International Film Festival, the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award for Best Director, and the FIPRESCI German Critics Award at the Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — among numerous further international prizes in 2014 and 2015.

Since then, Ester has built a sustained career as a director and series creator in German-language television. Her credits include the ZDF series Wir (Season 1, 2021), for which she received the Grimme-Preis in 2022, the ZDFneo series Let’s Share, Baby (Bantry Bay Productions, 2024) and the ZDF feature Fang mich doch (Studio Zentral, 2024).

She is currently postproducing Adriana Altaras’ autobiography DOITSCHA as a feature film and is developing several new series and feature projects. Ester is based in Berlin and works fluently in German, English, and Hebrew. Her work often spins around the psychology of female characters and their complex realities,  the search for identity, as well as Jewish history and present. Ester is not afraid of contradictory characters, drama, kitsch – and humour.