The International Random Film Festival is the first film festival in the world which celebrates randomness in cinema. Out of the submission 25 films are selected to compete each year. The festival is organized annually in a randomly selected location, on a random opening date. Awards are given out randomly.

History

The concept for the festival started as a breakfast-idea one summer morning in 2009 by Hannaleena Hauru (a filmmaker from Finland) and Synes Elischka (a media artist from Austria) – as a critique to the world wide short film festival network. The founders decided to start a film festival that gives an equal possibility to all the filmmakers to have their film screened internationally. The theoretical basis is to deconstruct the concept of a competition in quality.

The first edition for the festival in 2010 was promoted only by a Facebook group. The festival website has been running since April 2011.

Venues

• 2010: 1st edition, Wiesensteig
  Wiesensteig
  Wiesensteig is a town in the district of Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located on the river Fils, 16 km south of Göppingen....
  
  , Germany, February 2010
• 2011: 2nd edition, Bór Zapilski
  Bór Zapilski
  Bór Zapilski is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wręczyca Wielka, within Kłobuck County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Wręczyca Wielka, south-west of Kłobuck, and north of the regional capital Katowice.The village has a population...
  
  , Poland, July 2011
• 2012: 3rd edition, Anija
  Anija
  Anija is a village in Anija Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It has a population of 128 ....
  
  , Estonia, March 2012

Every year the festival takes place on a randomly selected time, in a random venue.
The location is selected by opening wikipedia.org and clicking Random article repeatedly, until reaching a page representing a place with a local population. The random selection methods are documented on the website and have become very entertaining.

The date of the Festivals Opening Night is selected by using the True Random Number Generator at random.org

Random.org

Random.org is a website that produces "true" random numbers based on atmospheric noise.In addition to generating random numbers, it has free tools to do things such as flip coins, shuffle cards, and roll dice...

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External links

• http://randomfilmfest.com/, International Random Film Festival official website
• http://hbl.fi/kultur/personportratt/2011-06-30/hon-vill-grunda-ny-filmskola, Article in Hufvudstadsbladet
  Hufvudstadsbladet
  Hufvudstadsbladet is the highest-circulation Swedish-language newspaper in Finland. Its headquarters are located in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The name of the newspaper translates approximately into "The Capital City Newspaper", hufvudstad being 19th century Swedish for capital...
  
   about the founder Hannaleena Hauru, and the 2nd Edition of the Festival in Bór Zapilski, Poland.
• http://kultura.onet.pl/film/filmy-na-chybil-trafil,1,4785216,artykul.html, Article about the festival's 2nd edition in Poland in onet.pl
  Onet.pl
  Onet.pl is the largest Polish web portal. It is owned by the Kraków-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company. According to Alexa rankings, as of December 2007, it is the 45th most popular website worldwide and the 3rd most popular site in Poland.Onet is currently owned by...
  
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• http://www.tvs.pl/35737,kulturalna_pustynia_zamieni_sie_w_centrum_sztuki.html Article and TV-spot on Television Silesia TVS, Poland.
• http://www.polskieradio.pl/9/445/Tematy/121049 Radio Interview on Polskie Radio
  Polskie Radio
  Polskie Radio Spółka Akcyjna is Poland's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization.- History :Polskie Radio was founded on 18 August 1925 and began making regular broadcasts from Warsaw on 18 April 1926....
  
  about the Random Film Festival, 10 July 2011.