Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito
Paloma AGUILERA VALDEBENITO (1982) is a writer, director and actor. She moved to Paris at the age of 18 to pursue acting. In 2004, she graduated from Acting International in Paris and from the Netherlands Film Academy with a degree in directing. In 2005, she returned to the Netherlands to graduate as a writer and filmmaker at the Netherlands Film Academy. Her short graduation film Blijf bij me, weg/Stay, Away (2009) was screened at film festivals throughout the world and was nominated for Best Short Film at the European Film Awards. Her feature film debut, Out of Love (2016), premiered at IFFR. For this film, she was also nominated for a Golden Calf for Best Screenplay.
Filmography
Blijf bij me, weg/Stay, Away (2009, short), Entre nosotros (2011), Van God Los (2013, TV Series, episode: Para), Out of Love (2016), Treat her like a lady (2025)
Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito at IFFR
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Treat Her Like a Lady
Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito | 110' | Netherlands | World premiere
Can eviction be revamped as a family holiday? A colourful tale of one woman’s resilience. -
Out of Love
Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito | 101' | Netherlands | World premiere
The boundary between passionate love and destructive obsession proves to be very thin for Varya and Nikolai, a couple whose fiercely blossoming relati -
Fata Morgana
Joanna Wesseling | 11' | Netherlands | World premiere
Little girl praying for her father to come back. A man appears and the prayer seems answered, but is it?