Director
Paula van der Oest
Laag-Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands · 19 films
Paula van der Oest (born 1965) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. Her 2001 film Zus & Zo was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. With her final exam at the Dutch Film and Television Academy, Zinderend, she won a Cannon Award in 1988. In the following years, she worked as an assistant director, until she returned in 1994 as a director. For the VPRO-series Lolamoviola she made the short movies Coma and Achilles En Het Zebrapad (Achilles and the Zebracrossing). With the former, she won a Golden Calf for the best television drama. In 1996 van der Oest made her first long movie: De nieuwe moeder (The New Mother). Her husband at the time, Theu Boermans, had a role in this movie (later, he would also have a role in Zus & Zo). De Trip Van Teetje (The Journey Of Teetje) was produced in 1998, with Cees Geel as a louche entrepreneur who buys a Russian cargo ship. With Zus & Zo, loosely based on Chekhov's The Three Sisters, van der Oest directed her first mainstream film in 2001. The realistic characters and the relations among the individuals from her former movies remained central, but there was more humour added, resulting in an Oscar nomination
Best known for
Filmography 19
Stromboli
2022 · Writer, Producer
On Netflix
The Forgotten Battle
2021 · Writer
On Kanopy
Love in a Bottle
2021 · Producer, Screenplay
The Bay of Silence
2020 · Director
All You Need Is Love
2018 · Screenplay
On IndieFlix
Younger Days
2017 · Writer, Director
Tonio
2016 · Director
On Kanopy
Accused
2014 · Director
On Brew
The Domino Effect
2012 · Director, Writer
Black Butterflies
2011 · Director
Tiramisu
2008 · Director, Writer
Wijster
2008 · Director
Hidden Flaws
2004 · Director
Madame Jeanette
2004 · Director
Moonlight
2002 · Director
On Hoopla
Zus & Zo
2002 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Roos en Rana
2001 · Writer
De Trip Van Teetje
1998 · Director
Another Mother
1996 · Writer, Director