International Random Film Festival

The festival was conceived one summer morning in 2009 as a breakfast idea by Hannaleena Hauru (a filmmaker from Finland) and Synes Elischka (a media artist from Austria), intended as a critique of the global short film festival network. The founders aimed to create a festival that offered all filmmakers an equal opportunity to have their work shown internationally. The festival’s underlying principle is to challenge traditional notions of competition based on quality. The inaugural edition in 2010 was promoted solely through a Facebook group, and the festival’s official website has been active since April 2011. == Venues ==

• 2010: 1st edition, Wiesensteig, Germany, February 2010 • 2011: 2nd edition, Bór Zapilski, Poland, July 2011 • 2012: 3rd edition, Anija, Estonia, March 2012 • 2013: 4th edition, Garpenberg, Sweden, December 2013 (opening night at Sagateatern in Hedemora) • 2014: 5th edition, Gdynia, Poland, November 2014 • 2017: 6th edition, Helsinki, Finland, May 2017 (replacing the originally selected venue Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia) Every year the festival takes place on a randomly selected time, in a random venue. The location is selected by opening Wikipedia 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. The date of the Festivals Opening Night is selected by using the True Random Number Generator at random.org. File:IRFF Crew 1.jpg|Organizers 2013 File:IRFF Saga entrance.jpg|Opening night 2013 File:IRFF Saga window.jpg|Storefront at opening night 2013 == External links ==