Nina Rodríguez holds an MA in the Presentation and Preservation of the Moving Image from the University of Amsterdam and has been Head of Programming at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico since 2006. She is part of the team behind Qumra, an initiative of the Doha Film Institute, which provides mentorship for international film projects. She served as Academic Coordinator for the Pueblo Mágico Mexican Film Residency in Tepoztlán and has worked for Tous Ecrans, Berlinale Talents, Tokyo IFF, and Sarajevo Film Festival. In 2020, Nina opened Compartimento Cinematográfico, an independent cinema in San Miguel de Allende.
Nina Rodríguez
Nina Rodríguez participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Nina Rodríguez’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Metal Parking Lot | John Heyn, Jeff Kruhlik | USA | 1986 | 17’ | ||
| The Secret Formula La fórmula secreta | Rubén Gámez | Mexico | 1965 | 45’ | ||
| La Patrona | Lizette Arguello | Mexico | 2009 | 5’ | ||
| A Movie | Bruce Conner | USA | 1958 | 12’ | ||
| The Burden Min börda | Niki Lindroth von Bahr | Sweden | 2017 | 15’ | ||
| Fake Fruit Factory | Chick Strand | USA | 1986 | 22’ | ||
| Wasp | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | 2003 | 26’ | ||
| La Coquille et le Clergyman The Seashell and the Clergyman | Germaine Dulac | France | 1928 | 41’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Everything | David O Reilly | Germany | 2017 | 10’ | ||