Kaori Oda
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.
Behind the camera
2025GAMA
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2025Underground
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2025FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
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2025Recording with Mother "Working Hands"
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2024Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon
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2024Lighthouse
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2022Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?
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2022Karaoke Cafe BOSA
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2022Homo Mobilitas
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2021Night Train
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2021colere-ON: Sep 27 - Oct 5
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2020Cenote
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2019Night Cruise
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2018Church of the Wind
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2018TUNE
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2017Aragane
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2017Toward a Common Tenderness
Director & Writer
2017Theory of Colours: prologue
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2017TEN
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2015FLASH
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2014Lost in Bosnia
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2014Conniving
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2012The Thread of Red Cocoons
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2012Thus a Noise Speaks
Director & Writer