The first instalment of the Dogme Manifesto (the celebrated ‘vow of chastity’ created by Lars Von Trier). Thomas Vinterberg’s FESTEN has won a host of international awards including the Jury Prize at Cannes, the LA and NY Critics Prize (Best Foreign Language Film) and a Golden Globe nomination. All the action takes place during the course of a family dinner party. What ensues is a darkly comic journey into forbidden family territory. Vinterberg’s filmmaking skills are unorthodox, bordering on revolutionary, but it is his screenplay that has international critics gasping and audiences glued to their seats.