Film

Festival

2005 · 1h 47m · Drama · Comedy

IMDb

6.0

Rotten Tomatoes

80%

'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house

Lyndsey Marshal

Faith Myers

Chris O'Dowd

Tommy O'Dwyer

Daniela Nardini

Joan Gerard

Stephen Mangan

Sean Sullivan

Lucy Punch

Nicky Romanowski

Raquel Cassidy

Petra Loewenberg

Clive Russell

Brother Mike

Amelia Bullmore

Micheline Menzies

Megan Dodds

Dina

Meredith MacNeill

Mary

Jonah Lotan

Rick

Richard Ayoade

Dwight Swan

Duncan Duff

Gordon Menzies

Matthew Holness

Roger - Lighting Man

Jimmy Chisholm

Radio Producer

Deirdre O'Kane

Frida Finucane

• Annie GriffinDirector · Writer
• Atif GhaniProducer
• Christopher YoungProducer
• Robert JonesExecutive Producer
• Caroline LeddyExecutive Producer
• Roger ShannonExecutive Producer
• Danny CohenDirector of Photography
• Jim SutherlandOriginal Music Composer
• William WebbEditor
• Rachel FreckCasting

Release date

July 15, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

18

Genres

Drama, Comedy

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