Born in Osaka in 1987. As a filmmaker and artist, Oda’s works explore the memories of human beings through images and sounds. She completed the Hollins University (USA) College of Liberal Arts Film course in 2011, and her graduation work "Thus a Noise Speaks" won the Audience Award at the Nara International Film Festival.
She lived in Sarajevo for three years from 2013 and completed the Doctor of Liberal Arts in Filmmaking under the supervision of Hungarian filmmaker 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. In 2020, Oda was awarded the inaugural Nagisa Oshima Prize presented by the Pia Film Festival. Edit Biography