
Directing
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.

GAMA
2025

Underground
2025

FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
2025

Recording with Mother "Working Hands"
2025
By the Sea
2024
Kandachime
2024

Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon
2024

Lighthouse
2024

Karaoke Cafe BOSA
2022

Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?
2022

Homo Mobilitas
2022

Night Train
2021

colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5
2021

Cenote
2020

Night Cruise
2019

Church of the Wind
2018

TUNE
2018

Aragane
2017

Toward a Common Tenderness
2017

Theory of Colours: prologue
2017

TEN
2017

FLASH
2015

Lost in Bosnia
2014

Conniving
2014

Thus a Noise Speaks
2012

The Thread of Red Cocoons
2012