Kaori Oda
Kaori Oda, born in Osaka, Japan in 1987, is a filmmaker and artist. In 2016, she completed a Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking in Sarajevo, supervised by Béla Tarr. Aragane (2015), shot in a Bosnian coal mine, premiered at Yamagata International Film Festival. Toward a Common Tenderness (2017) had its world premiere at DOK Leipzig and TS’ONOT / Cenote (2019), shot in underwater caves in Yucatán, premiered in Rotterdam. GAMA (2023) screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight and Cinéma du Réel. Oda received the Nagisa Oshima Prize in 2020 and the New Face Award of the Japanese Education Minister in 2021.
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Movies (32)
Masayume
2026 · Cinematography
Jibun, Maru! Ippo no Hanashi
2025 · Cinematography
In Their Traces
2025 · Cinematography
A Very Straight Neck
2025 · Director of Photography
GAMA
2025 · Director
Underground
2025 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
2025 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Recording with Mother "Working Hands"
2025 · Director
By the Sea
2024 · Director
Kandachime
2024 · Director
Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon
2024 · Director
Lighthouse
2024 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
2023 · Camera Operator
Karaoke Cafe BOSA
2022 · Director, Cinematography, Sound, Editor
Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?
2022 · Director
Homo Mobilitas
2022 · Director
Night Train
2021 · Director
colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5
2021 · Director
Cenote
2020 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor, Producer
Night Cruise
2019 · Director
Church of the Wind
2018 · Director
TUNE
2018 · Director
Aragane
2017 · Editor, Director of Photography, Director
Toward a Common Tenderness
2017 · Herself, Director, Sound, Writer, Editor, Cinematography
Theory of Colours: prologue
2017 · Cinematography, Editor, Director
TEN
2017 · Director
It Could Be a Film
2016 · Director of Photography
FLASH
2015 · Cinematography, Director
Lost in Bosnia
2014 · Writer, Director
Conniving
2014 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
Thus a Noise Speaks
2012 · Sound Mixer, Camera Operator, Director, Editor, Sound Editor, Writer
The Thread of Red Cocoons
2012 · Director, Writer, Editor
