Kaori ODA
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Kaori Oda (小田香), born in Osaka (Japan), 1987. Filmmaker/Artist. Through images and sounds, Kaori Oda’s works explore the memories of human beings. She lived in Sarajevo for three years from 2013 and completed the Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking under the supervision of Béla Tarr in 2016.

Her first feature, Aragane (2015) shot in a Bosnian coal mine, had its World Premiere at Yamagata International Film Festival and received Special Mention. Her second feature, Toward A Common Tenderness (2017) a poetic film research, had its World Premiere at DOK Leipzig and Cenote (2019) shot in underwater caves in Yucatan Mexico, was premiered in Bright Future section at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020. Her recent middle length film GAMA (2023) has been screened at MoMA Docfortnight, Cinéma du Réel and Festival du ciné-ma de Brive (Jury SFCC de la Critique). She received the Inaugural Nagisa Oshima Prize in 2020 and the new face award of Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2021. 

The latest feature, Underground (2024) that explores subterranean spaces in Japan, had its World Premiere at Tokyo International Film Festival and International premiere at Forum section of Berlinale 2025.