Festival is a 2005 film about a number of people at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The general shots of the festival were filmed during the 2004 event.

Interesting encounters and conversations take place at an international animation film festival on various societal levels. Diverse films, ideas, nationalities and personal relationships communicate the typical atmosphere between the celebrations, introductory and thank you speeches, accompanied by thundering applause. (Hubert Sielecki) Written by Sixpack Film

More than 60 Maine high schools compete in the Maine State Drama Festival, an annual one-act play competition. FESTIVAL follows one school's emotional and, ultimately, triumphant journey through the pressure-packed 2004 state competition in Camden, Maine. For their first feature documentary, Maine filmmakers Jim and Tom Isler turned their cameras on the Theatre Company at Falmouth High School, which, over the past decade, has earned a reputation as one of the state's powerhouse theater companies; in ten years, FHS reached the state festival eight times, taking home four state titles. FESTIVAL offers an engrossing and entertaining inside look at an intensely competitive subculture of high school-one that matters deeply to those who participate in it-as experienced by some of the most talented high school actors and actresses in Maine. FESTIVAL is also a loving portrait of Dede Waite, the company's dedicated and idiosyncratic director of 19 years, as well as a beautiful document of youthful exuberance and the inspiring dedication of a group of teenagers to their craft, their art and each other. Written by Gloaming Pictures

'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. Written by Anonymous