An array of colourful characters descends on Edinburgh for the annual Fringe Festival, leading to a series of comical and uncomfortable situations. As judges use their influence for sexual gain and performers try to make their mark, locals observe the goings-on with stoical confusion. Comedy, starring Amelia Bullmore, Chris O'Dowd, Billy Carter, Raquel Cassidy and Megan Dodds.

'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