Rodolfo D. Sandino

Vislumbres de un Pasado Presente (original title)

20 min | Portugal, Nicaragua, Hungary, Belgium

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Director, Writer, Editor
Rodolfo D. Sandino

Production
DocNomads

Mentor
Victor Candeias

Cinematography Consultant
María Grazia Goya

Sound Post Consultants
Margo Kulichova
Tarun Madupu

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Tragicomedia bailete de la época contemporánea (original title)

11 min | Belgium, Nicaragua, Portugal, Hungary

A colonial-era play becomes a framework for examining the backdrop of today’s political landscape.

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Director, Writer, Editor
Rodolfo D. Sandino

Production
DocNomads

Mentors
Mareike Wegener
Christina Stuhlberger

Editing Consultant
Simon Arazi

Sound Consultant
Aurélien Lebourg

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11 min | Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, Nicaragua

Venezuelan by birth, Hungarian by blood. Gladys fled her home 6 years ago to her father’s country of origin. Now in it, she tries to connect with the identity of a father she barely knew.

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Link available on request.

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Director
Rodolfo D. Sandino

Production
DocNomads

DocNomads Supervisors
Attila Kékesi
Asia Dér
Bálint Biró
Dorottya Zurbó
Péter Kerekes

Mentor
Attila Kékesi

Guest consultants
Frederik Nicolai
Victor Candeias

Cinematography consultant
Eduardo Saraiva

Editing consultant
Levente Pap

Sound consultant
Tamás Bohács

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8 min | Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Nicaragua

A Nicaraguan living in Portugal for over 20 years cooks a meal that brings her closer to home.

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Director
Rodolfo D. Sandino

Production
DocNomads

Mentors
Margarida Cardoso
Tiago Hespanha
Victor Candeias

Editing and Sound Post Consultants
Pedro Filipe Marques
Margo Kulichova
Tarun Madupu

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10 min | Ireland, Lebanon

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Link available on request.

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Director
Cindy Chehab

Editors
Cindy Chehab & Rodolfo D. Sandino

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3 min

Short-film made by creatively reusing archives from the Reuters Screenocean Collection.

In Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast, Maypole has been danced since the 17th century, evolving from the influence of British colonialist celebrations. Through archival echoes, the film explores how commercialization has reshaped and eroded the ritual’s original meaning.

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7 min | Hungary

Beyond Observation exercise of DocNomads shot in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.

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Link available on request.

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Directors
Ana Barjadze & Rodolfo D. Sandino

DocNomads Supervisors
Gabor Ferenczi
Dorottya Zurbó
Bálint Biró

Editing Consultant
Réka Lemhényi

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13 min | Portugal

Fieldwork exercise of DocNomads shot in Guimarães, Portugal.

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Directors
Aiya Akilzhanova
Macha Tsarenkov
Marta Massa
Minh Thy Hoang Pham
Rodolfo D. Sandino
Shaojun Wang

DocNomads Supervisors
Margarida Cardoso
Tiago Hespanha

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5 min | Portugal

Point of view exercise of DocNomads shot in Lisboa, Portugal.

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Directors
Rodolfo D. Sandino & Yeasir Arafat

DocNomads Supervisor
Victor Candeias

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16 min | Nicaragua

On a trip to Waslala to visit her mother María Eufemia, Amanda seeks to reconnect with the territory that belongs to her and was taken from her as a child.

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Directors
Amanda Woo & Rodolfo D. Sandino

Editors
Rodolfo D. Sandino
Amanda Woo
Arles Sandoval

Production
Cinema Regional
Amanda Woo

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Nominated – Best Central American Short Documentary, 27th ÍCARO Festival Internacional de Cine (2024, Guatemala)

Short-documentary, story developed at the DOC. LAB Coimbra in March 2025.

Director, Writer, Editor
Rodolfo D. Sandino

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