Directing
Community Rating
6.2
Initial estimate
Born in
Laag-Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
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
Achilles en het zebrapad
as Director, Script
TBA

The Soundman
as Co-Producer
2025

The Jewish Council
as Director
2024

Stromboli
as Writer, Producer
2022

Het gouden uur
as Creative Producer
2022

The Forgotten Battle
as Writer, Executive Producer
2021

Love in a Bottle
as Screenplay, Producer, Director
2021

Kerstgezel.nl
as Director, Producer
2020

The Bay of Silence
as Director
2020

Van der Valk
as Director
2020

The Parts You Lose
as Executive Producer
2019

All You Need Is Love
as Screenplay
2018

Younger Days
as Director, Writer
2017

Petticoat
as Writer
2016

Tonio
as Director
2016

Noord Zuid
as Director, Scenario Writer
2015

Accused
as Director
2014

The Domino Effect
as Director, Writer
2012

Godforsaken True Killers
as Director
2011

Black Butterflies
as Director
2011