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Paula van der Oest
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 fina…
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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
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2020
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2020
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
Petticoat
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2016
Tonio
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2015
Noord Zuid
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2014
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2012
The Domino Effect
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2011
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2011
Black Butterflies
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2008
Tiramisu
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2008
Wijster
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2004
Hidden Flaws
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2004
Madame Jeanette
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2002
Moonlight
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2002
Zus & Zo
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2001
Roos en Rana
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1998
De Trip Van Teetje
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1996
Another Mother
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1994
1,000 Roses
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1991
Elias or the Fight with the Nightingales
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1990
Vigour
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Achilles en het zebrapad
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