The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

The name is certainly cognate with the Doric month name Απέλλαιος and the Doric festival απελλαι.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

Hay is normally brought in twice a year, often also on festival days.

* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August

* Bon festival – ( Obon Festival ) is a Japanese traditional buddhist custom, evolved into a family reunion holiday.

This festival is locally known as Korfest.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

Van Mahotsav is an annual pan-Indian tree planting festival, occupying a week in the month of July. During this event millions of trees are planted.

The perseverance of the Pilgrims is celebrated during the annual Thanksgiving festival.

It is also a fertility festival, similar in some ways to other harvest-time celebrations in other cultures.

The Donkey brae run is held on the first Sunday of the festival and is popular nationwide, with a 7-mile race, 2-mile run and a 1-mile run for children.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

The Japanese festival, in which Altair is known as, is based on this legend.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

Beltane () is the anglicised spelling of the Goidelic name for either the month of May or the festival held on the first day of May.

Beltane regained popularity during the Celtic Revival and is still observed as a cultural festival by some in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and among their diasporas.

Today, Beltane is also observed as a religious festival by Celtic neopagans.

Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.

The eight-day festival is marked by the kindling of lights — one on the first night, two on the second, and so on — using a special candle holder called a Chanukkiyah, or a Hanukkah menorah.

His arrival on 18 July was well received by the Antiochenes, though it coincided with the celebration of the Adonia, a festival which marked the death of Adonis, so there was wailing and moaning in the streets — not a good omen for an arrival.

He became pope on 27 October 625, two days after the death of his predecessor, Boniface V. The festival of the Elevation of the Cross is said to have been instituted during the pontificate of Honorius, which was marked also by considerable missionary enterprise.

The medieval Goidelic festival of Samhain marked the end of the harvest, the end of the " lighter half " of the year and beginning of the " darker half ".

The festival marked the end of the season for trade and warfare and was an ideal date for tribal assemblies, where the local kings gathered their people.

This festival, however, marked the end of the year and was linked to time more directly than to space ( as attested by Augustine's apologia on the role of Janus with respect to endings ).

On August 2, 2009, Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, which also marked the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival.

A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion.

Her festival fell on the Ides of March ( March 15 ), which would have marked the first full moon in the year in the old lunar Roman calendar when March was reckoned as the first month of the year, and was held at the grove of the goddess at the first milestone on the Via Flaminia.

This winter festival is not marked on any known religious calendar but was dedicated to the public interest and supervised by the Vestals, and therefore must be considered official.

2009 marked the last time Tromadance was held in Utah ; the festival was subsequently relocated to Asbury Park, New Jersey.

October 2011 marked the 66th anniversary of this festival.

It is Henderson's oldest on-going music festival and marked its 25th continuous year in 2010.

2007 marked the start of the Crozet Music Festival an all day festival with local artists such as Terri Alard, Sons of Bill, Trees on Fire, etc.

In 2006, the festival was part of the Appalachia 100 celebration that marked the 100th birthday of the Town of Appalachia. In 2010 it was their 104th birthday.

Gibb marked his return to his birthplace by playing a concert at the Isle of Man TT festival in 2007.

On 1 August 2010 ; the band played the sold out music festival Sonisphere, which marked their first UK performance since the tour for their Love album.

The account is marked by a sense of urgency in doing this before the coming festival of the Sabbath, during which rest would be observed and no work could occur.

The festival of San Fermín ( or Sanfermines, ) in the city of Pamplona ( Navarre, Spain ), is a deeply rooted celebration held annually from 12: 00, 6 July, when the opening of the fiesta is marked by setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo, to midnight 14 July, with the singing of the Pobre de Mí.

All wear their full festival costumes, the only exception being that the Fool's face is not marked.

The festival is marked by several ascetic displays, including fire-walking and ascending sharp-bladed ladders.

The festival was long marked as a festival culturally in China.

The 2005 festival also marked the 60th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War in which Whitehaven had been designated Cumbria's Official commemoration celebration.