FILM FESTIVALS & FILM CONCERTS

2025

- International experimental festival of film and arts SUSPAUSTAS LAIKAS, World Premiere, part of the opening screening:

Tempest of My Eyes

- International experimental festival of film and arts SUSPAUSTAS LAIKAS, part of the opening screening: I Was Born

- Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Limina Competition - International Premiere: I Was Born

2024

- BOGOSHORTS  - Bogota Short Film Festival, International Music Video Competition: Ievan Polkka

- Pori Film Festival, world premiere: I Was Born

- FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos, Mainz, special screening FINNISCHER KURZFILMABEND: 

Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings 

- Oulu Music Video Festival, The Finnish Music Video Competition: Ieva's Polka

- Tapiola Sinfonietta, concert: Ollikainen & Räisänen 1.2.2024, Change of Faces -short film screened with composer Outi Tarkiainen’s song cycle: Eanan, gida nieida

2023

- BE POLAR Film Festival, Warsaw: Govadas

- Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Vignola, Italy:

Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings 

2022     

- SPHERE Festival, opening concert, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa: Change of Faces -short film screened with live orchestra: screened with composer Outi Tarkiainen’s song cycle: Eanan, gida nieida

- Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, UK, International Competition:   Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings

- CulturaFest 2022, Helsinki: Govadas

- Black Canvas CFF, México City, international competition: 

Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings

- Participating as an invited artist with several short films to the BeNature -film concert in Bielefeld,  Germany

- Helsinki International Film Festival, Shorts Competition:

Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings
- New Horizons IFF, Poland, White Nights -screening: Govadas

- Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, European competition: Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings

 

2021

- Nordische Filmtage Lübeck:

Flying Potato and Other Misunderstandings - world premiere

- FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin: Govadas 

- Concorto Film Festival, Focus selection: Govadas

- when the light hits just right - analogue film & photography festival, by Filmverkstaden, Vaasa: Govadas at Creating doesn’t stop -screening, curated by Kari Yli-Annala

- FIFEQ Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec: Govadas

- Tampere Film Festival, Freedom to Move -screening of AV-arkki: Hotel President

- Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, online concert: 18.2.2021, Change of Faces -short film screened with composer Outi Tarkiainen’s song cycle: Eanan, gida nieida

 

2020  

- Split Film Festival, International Short Film Competition:

Paris Diaries

2019

- Gijón International Film Festival, Spain, screening: Govadas 

- Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, screening: Govadas 

- Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, screening: Govadas                      

- Seoul International NewMedia Festival, South Korea, screening: Govadas

- Tampere Film Festival, Finland, International Competition: Govadas

- Skábmagovat Indigenous Film Festival, Inari, Finland: Govadas

 

2018

- MUU Gala, Kuryokhin Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia, screening: Hotel President

- MUU Gala, Helsinki, screening: Hotel President

- Rex Fest, Amos Rex, Helsinki, screening: Govadas

- Festival Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, International Competition: Govadas

- Uppsala International Short Film Festival, International Competition: Govadas

- Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, screening: Govadas

- Screening of Change of Faces with live orchestra: Arctic Philharmonic, Tromsø, Norway  

- Indigenous Film Festival, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, US, world premiere: Govadas

- Vaasa Wildlife Nature Film Festival, Finland, screening: Govadas

- AAVE Festival, Helsinki, film concert: The Sound of Tempest with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen

2017

- Pori International Film Festival, Finland, film concert: The Sound of Tempest with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen

- Kaivos-Festival, Outokumpu, Finland, film concert: Change of Faces with Henrik Sandås, accordion  

2016

- Korundi -House of Culture, Rovaniemi, Finland, SAJOS, Sámi Cultural Centre, Inari, Finland: two concerts with short film Change of Faces with composer Outi Tarkiainen and her song cycle: Eanan, gida nieida

- Flow Festival, Helsinki, film concert: The Sound of Tempest with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen

- Silence -festival, Kittilä, Finland, Premieres: The Sound of Tempest -film concert with Aino Eerola and Jyri Pirinen, screening: Le Temps de l’Escargot

- EMAP, Ewha Media Art Presentation, Seoul, South Korea, screening: The Tempest

2012

- Sampo-sali, Media Centre Lume, Aalto University: 

Pelléas et Mélisande, world premiere with Mari Sainio's music

- St.Petersburg Student Film Festival Beginning: 

Pelléas et Mélisande (with Sibelius' music), the film received an honorary mention: Sergey Dobrotvorsky’s Diploma, Seance -magazine: For the fruitful search of sources of the impossible

- Arktisen upeeta Film Festival, Jyväskylä, Finland: 

Pelléas et Mélisande (with Sibelius' music)

2011

Kamarikesä Festival, Music and art festival at the House of Nobility, Helsinki: Pelléas et Mélisande - world premiere with Sibelius' music

RESIDENCIES AND NOMINATION

2024

Fabrikken, Copenhagen - Artist Residency: 3 months

2019

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris - Artist Residency: 3 months

 

2017-2018

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris - Artist Residency: 2 months

   

2016  

Väinö Tanner Foundation, Mazzano Romano, Italy - Artist Residency: 2 months

 

2015

Circolo Scandinavo, Rome - Artist Residency: 1 months              

 

2013-2014

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris - Artist Residency: 13 months

 

2012

Sergey Dobrotvorsky’s Diploma, Seance -magazine: For the fruitful search of sources of the impossible a nomination at St. Petersburg Student Film Festival for the film Pelléas et Mélisande  

Bio

Finnish artist and filmmaker Elina Oikari works in the realm between art house cinema, media art and documentary film methodology centered around cinéma vérité and essay film. Her work often deals with current social themes, timeless places, and absurd encounters.

Elina aims to challenge the conventional underlying narrative framework and sound design in video and filmmaking. She has worked over 15 years with fiction, documentary and alternative film, and holds a Master of Arts from the ELO Film School Finland in Aalto University (2014). 

Oikari’s work has been widely shown at several festivals in Finland and abroad, including Helsinki International Film Festival 2025 & 2022, New Horizons IFF, Wrocław 2022, Encounters FF, Bristol 2022, Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2021 & 2019, Go Short — ISFF Nijmegen 2022 and Gijón International Film Festival 2019.