# Festen

Festen at The Cinema Museum, Wednesday 4 November 2026, 19:30.

- Price: £10
- Venue: The Cinema Museum, Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London
- With: Leo Krenzer
- Get tickets: https://ticketlab.co.uk/event/id/38252#/
- Go to page: https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/festen-1998/

![Festen](https://noky.io/images/59fa475db726aebbc24ae6bc2caa59716850abc9b0497de4cc565b3a531d420c-600.webp)

Festen (The Celebration) is a 1998 Danish film about a patriarch's lavish birthday gathering that descends into chaos, laying bare the fractures beneath a façade of bourgeois respectability through handheld camerawork, stark natural lighting, and raw, unflinching performances. It was directed by Thomas Vinterberg, who the film announced as an exciting new voice at the dawn of the Dogme 95 movement, and it won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The screening comes with an introduction by Leo Krenzer.

## Dates

- Wednesday 4 November 19:30 — The Cinema Museum

Written by a model, sources: [cinemamuseum.org.uk](https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/festen-1998/)

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