film festival
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- noun
- /fɪlm ˈfɛstəvəl/
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festival de cine
- I was at the Cannes Film Festival and a Russian woman did my makeup.
- annual film festival
So I'm going to Cannes twice for Film Festival and then for Cannes Lions.
- So I'm going to Cannes twice for Film Festival and then for Cannes Lions.
- And so that film went to different film festivals.
- There is a a French town that hosts a very famous Film Festival.
- Well, Cannes is the the world's greatest Film Festival.
- I live in LA and I produce a Film Festival.
- So this, this film is now in Washington, DC as it is competing in the Politics on Film Festival that is this weekend.
- The same director has a movie called Queer that got like really good reviews out of the Venice Film Festival.
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I've just come home from one of my favorite things, a film festival.
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My parents took me to a 3-D film festival.
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Dad and I went to Russia once, to a film festival.
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So go and attend a Film Festival that is near your area.
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We go to see the Sam Fuller film festival.
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The film will also play at film festivals throughout October and November.
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So this, this film is now in Washington, DC as it is competing in the Politics on Film Festival that is this weekend.
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The movie is touring film festivals worldwide in 2012 and 2013.
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It's a Toronto Film Festival, which is, I mean, for those of you watching, that's like our Super Bowl in a sense.
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Every summer, I look forward to attending the local film festival where new movies are showcased.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an event showing a selection of films' is directly and compositionally derived from 'film' (movies) + 'festival' (a public series/showcase of works). This is a common, literal compound pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Film festival comes from joining film and festival: imagine a big public event where many movies are shown. At a film festival the films are 'shown' and 'celebrated' and sometimes given awards, so the term means an event where a selection of films is presented to an audience.