A festival is a celebratory event, usually centered on a theme.
Festival may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film
- Festival (1967 film), a documentary about the 1963-1965 Newport Folk Festivals
- Festival (1996 film), a film by South Korean director Im Kwon-taek
- Festival (2001 film), a drama film by Swedish director Karl Johan Larsson
- Festival (2005 film), a comedy about performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Festival (film), a 2018 comedy film set at large UK music festival
Literature
- Festivals (book), a 1973 collection of festival-related folklore by Ruth Manning-Sanders
- "The Festival" (short story), a story by H. P. Lovecraft
Music
- Music festival a kind of live music performance and celebration, usually in a large open venue
Music companies
- Festival Distribution, a Canadian record label and distributor
- Festival Records (Australia) (1952–2005), an Australian music recording and publishing company
- Festival Records, a record label founded in 1958 by Herb Abramson
Albums
- Festival (Jon Oliva's Pain album) or the title song, 2006
- Festival (Kenan DoÄŸulu album), 2006
- Festival (Lee Ritenour album), 1988
- Festival (Santana album), 1977
Songs
- "Festival", a song by Krokus from To You All
Television
- Festival (TV channel), a defunct family-friendly HBO premium channel
- Festival (British TV series), a 1960s dramatic anthology series
- Festival (Canadian TV series), a 1960s entertainment anthology series
Other arts and entertainment
- The Festival, an 18th-century masque
- DDR Festival Dance Dance Revolution, a 2004 Dance Dance Revolution video game
Other uses
- Aerostar R40S Festival, a Romanian light-sport aircraft
- Christian festival, a major event in the Liturgical year of Christian churches, such as Christmas and Easter
- Festival (Anglicanism), a type of observance day
- Festival (food), a type of deep-fried bread in Jamaican cuisine
- Festival Speech Synthesis System, a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system
See also
- List of festivals
- MV Festivity, an Empire F type coaster in service with F T Everard & Sons Ltd, 1946-61
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