Paula van der Oest (born 1965) is a Dutch

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and

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. Her 2001 film '' Zus & Zo'' was nominated for the

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. With her final exam at the

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, ''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

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-series '' Lolamoviola'' she made the short movies ''Coma'' and ''Achilles en het zebrapad'' (Achilles and the Zebracrossing). With the first, she won a

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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, and an English

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made some changes, resulting in an Oscar nomination. However, the general public left the movie unseen. Hereafter she created the English thriller/fairytale ''Moonlight'' (2002) about the relation between a 13-year-old girl and a balloon swallower of the same age; the film ''Madame Jeannette'', situated in the

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-community (which was a great success in the

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Bijlmer area in 2004); and the film ''Verborgen gebreken'' (2004), based on a book by Renate Dorrestein. ''Moonlight'' was entered into the

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. In 2001, she wrote the screenplay for Meral Uslu's telefilm ''Roos and Rana''. Currently, Paula van der Oest is planning a second film about Suriname and she is working on a movie based on

Heleen van Royen Heleen van Royen (born Helena Margaretha Kroon; 9 March 1965, in Amsterdam) is a Dutch novelist and columnist. Her novel ''De gelukkige huisvrouw'' ("The Happy Housewife") was best-selling Dutch novel of 2010. The candid descriptions of sexualit ...

's ''De gelukkige huisvrouw'' (The Happy Homemaker).

Filmography

* 1988 - '' Zinderend'' * 1994 - ''

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'' * 1995 - ''

Achilles en het zebrapad In Greek mythology, Achilles ( ) or Achilleus ( grc-gre, Ἀχιλλεύς) was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and the central character of Homer's ''Iliad''. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, k ...

'' * 1996 - '' Always yours, for never'' * 1996 - '' De nieuwe moeder'' * 1997 - '' Smakeloos'' * 1998 - '' Meedingers'' (televisiefilm) * 1998 - '' De trip van Teetje'' * 1999 - episode 2 (''Doolhof'') of the television sequel ' De zeven deugden' * 1999 - '' Link spel'' * 2001 - '' Zus & Zo'' * 2002 - ''

Moonlight Moonlight consists of mostly sunlight (with little earthlight) reflected from the parts of the Moon's surface where the Sun's light strikes. Illumination The intensity of moonlight varies greatly depending on the lunar phase, but even the ...

'' * 2004 - '' Madame Jeanette'' * 2004 - '' Verborgen gebreken'' * 2008 - '' Tiramisu'' * 2008 - '' Wijster'' * 2011 - ''

Black Butterflies ''Black Butterflies'' is an English-language Dutch drama film about the life of South-African Afrikaans poet and anti-apartheid political dissident Ingrid Jonker. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and premiered in the Netherlands on F ...

'' * 2011 - ''Mixed Up'' * 2012 - ''The Domino Effect'' * 2014 - '' Accused'' * 2016 - ''

Tonio Tonio may refer to: * ''Tonio'' (film), a 2016 Dutch film *Tonio (software), a Vocaloid vocal *Tonio Kröger, a novella by Thomas Mann * ''Tonio Kröger'' (film), a film based on the novella *Tonio (app), an audio-decoding-app * Tonio (name), per ...

'' * 2017 - ''kleine ijstijd'' * 2020 - '' The Bay of Silence'' * 2021 - ''

Love in a Bottle ''Love in a Bottle'' is a Dutch romantic comedy directed by Paula van der Oest. Plot Two people in different countries fall in love over videocalls during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reception De Volkskrant liked the film but said the plot got qu ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oest, Paula van der 1965 births Living people People from Rheden Dutch film directors Dutch women screenwriters Dutch screenwriters Dutch women film directors Golden Calf winners