If an 11-day festival with over 400 screenings leaves you with too many choices, don’t worry. Love & Anarchy has come up with a solution for the indecisive, the unsure, and those eager to try something new.
Finland’s largest and most beautiful film festival has added R&A Rec recommendation engine to its offerings, and it is now in use for the first time. R&A Rec sifts through the films and themes to provide recommendations tailored just for you. You can influence the film recommendations yourself by choosing keywords such as “period,” “free,” “feel-good,” “weird,” “R&A Shorts,” “indigenous peoples,” and so on.
Once you’ve logged in to R&A Rec, it will also have access to orders you’ve placed in previous years using the same email address. Recommendations are based not only on the keywords you provide but also on your previous purchase history. R&A Rec takes into account themes, languages, countries of origin, and movie keywords.
Do you love Kelly Reichardt’s reserved films? Check out Two Seasons, Two Strangers this year. Are you into scifi? Watch The End of it.
You can save your own watchlist on the R&A Rec platform, and you can also share it with your friends. The most curious among you can also test R&A Rec’s schedule feature – still under development – and use it to create a daily viewing plan.
Don’t rely on artificial intelligence, use R&A Rec. You can find it at rec.hiff.fi