Every year, for over 20 years, all Hubert Bals Fund supported films find their own place in the IFFR programme. Over the course of time the HBF has been at the start of many filmmaking adventures and proudly followed the growing careers of filmmakers throughout the world. To come full circle, since 2010 the Fund annually invites one director to freely interpret his relationship with the HBF and the IFFR and to come up with a one-minute leader.
This specially commissioned short film (or 'leader') is put before all films that make up the annual 'Harvest' of films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund. This way we highlight the Harvest for the Rotterdam audience in our cinemas during the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Jose Luis Torres Leiva created his short film as an homage to Raul Ruiz, who was enormously inspirational for many filmmakers. Torres Leiva: 'To make an homage to Raúl Ruiz is almost an uncontrollable impulse. "La ville des pirates" was one of the first Ruiz movies I was able to watch and even if I saw it on a small TV and played from a old VHS, the image of Anne Alvaro and her beautiful sleep-walk stayed in my memory until today. I felt it's an image that contains a lot of Raul Ruiz's universe: his sense of humour, his reverie, his provocation and his elegance.'
2011: Ars colonia
Directed by
Raya Martín