The Festival

The Festival is a 2018 British comedy film directed by Iain Morris and co-written by Keith Akushie and Joe Parham. The film stars Joe Thomas, Hannah Tointon, Emma Rigby, Hammed Animashaun and Claudia O'Doherty. Plot Nick Taylor's girlfriend, Caitlin, breaks up with him on the day of their graduation from university, and he humiliates himself at the ceremony by begging her to take him back. Nick’s friend Shane Simpson persuades him to attend the Giant Music Festival to get over Caitlin, as they have already bought their tickets and Shane wants to meet DJ Hammerhead (who performs wearing a hammerhead shark mask). On the train they meet Amy, a talkative, exuberant and jocund Australian who has attended the festival for nine consecutive years. Shane is drawn to her while Nick rebuffs her attempts to be friendly. Despite hiding from the conductor by pretending to have an orgy in the toilet, the three are ejected from the train for traveling on child tickets. After reaching the event on foot, Nick and Shane search for a campsite while Amy goes to her usual location. They run into Caitlin and her wealthy and arrogant friends from university, who are staying together in a luxurious tent and invite Nick and Shane to stay. They also meet a man nicknamed Pirate because of his amputated leg, who has designs on Caitlin and puts Nick down by affecting to mistake his name for "Lick".