2024Nominee
Best Director
Lighthouse
Kaori Oda
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Biography
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2023Winner
Best Performance
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
2018Nominee
Best Director
TUNE
Career Highlights
2019Highlight
Best Director
Night Cruise
2025Highlight
Best Director
Underground
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Cenote
Toward a Common Tenderness