Bonne Année is French for Happy New year and, if you ever felt like organising a French film festival, this is the year and now is the time. You can start next week and the whole thing will be done and dusted by the end of the month.
Usually you would need to plan a long way ahead, find sponsors, staff and cinemas. Then you would need to pick the films, negotiate the rights, arrange the transport of the celluloid spools and the special guests and ...pray that they arrive on time for the advertised screening. And that is only half of the joys, headaches and suspense that are part and parcel of managing a cultural event like a film festival. It's like that on a large scale for Cannes, Berlin, London and all of the major film festivals, and also for the thousand local festivals happening somewhere in the world every single day of the year. One thing they all have in common is that the organisers never have the time or the peace of mind to enjoy the films.
