
Paula van der Oest
Biography
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
Directing (15 movies)

Zus & Zo
2002

Moonlight
2002

Black Butterflies
2011

Tiramisu
2008

De Trip Van Teetje
1998

The Domino Effect
2012

Another Mother
1996

Accused
2014

Wijster
2008

Tonio
2016

Hidden Flaws
2004

Younger Days
2017

The Bay of Silence
2020

Madame Jeanette
2004

Love in a Bottle
2021
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Another Mother | 1996 | Writer | 
| Roos en Rana | 2001 | Writer | 
| Zus & Zo | 2002 | Writer | 
| Tiramisu | 2008 | Writer | 
| The Domino Effect | 2012 | Writer | 
| Younger Days | 2017 | Writer | 
| All You Need Is Love | 2018 | Screenplay | 
| The Parts You Lose | 2019 | Executive Producer | 
| The Forgotten Battle | 2020 | Writer | 
| The Forgotten Battle | 2020 | Executive Producer | 
| Love in a Bottle | 2021 | Producer | 
| Love in a Bottle | 2021 | Screenplay | 
| Stromboli | 2022 | Writer | 
| Stromboli | 2022 | Producer |