
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.
32 movies · 1 TV show, newest first

Masayume
2026
Jibun, Maru! Ippo no Hanashi
2025
In Their Traces
2025
A Very Straight Neck
2025
GAMA
2025
Underground
2025
FUKUSHIMA with BÉLA TARR
2025
Recording with Mother "Working Hands"
2025By the Sea
2024Kandachime
2024
Black Red Ultramarine White Lemon
2024
Lighthouse
2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
2023
Karaoke Cafe BOSA
2022
Would You Like to Go to the Cinema Today?
2022
Homo Mobilitas
2022
Night Train
2021
My Love: Six Stories of True Love
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
2017It Could Be a Film
2016
FLASH
2015
Lost in Bosnia
2014
Conniving
2014
Thus a Noise Speaks
2012
The Thread of Red Cocoons
2012