Documentary Short
One-way Ticket
Directed by 
Víctor Augusto Mendívil
AFIN 2021 Nominee
- 2021
- 13m
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Peru - Spanish
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Synopsis
This is the story of Mr. Rafael Castrillon, a master toymaker with more than sixty years of experience and a former Mr. Peru in bodybuilding. His story is a one-way ticket towards the manufacture of the traditional wooden toy.
What makes this one special
- 10 awards at other festivals1 Festival Internacional de Cine de Tepic · 1 Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente Desde Los Extramuros Del Mundo · 1 FILMHAUS Berlin and 7 more
- Programmed at 60 other festivalsAcross 21 countries
- The only film from Peru in AFIN's archive
Also selected at
10 awards, 1 finalist placing, 49 official selections across 60 other festivals
- Winner1 Festival Internacional de Cine de Tepic
- Winner1 Festival Internacional De Cine Independiente Desde Los Extramuros Del Mundo
- Winner1 FILMHAUS Berlin
- Winner12 Festival de Cine de Europa Central y Oriental Al Este
- Winner14 Festival de Cine del Mar
- Winner3 Festival IberoÀ 48 HFP
- Winner3 Wallachia International Film Festival
- Winner5 Festival Internacional de Cine Luz del Desierto
- Winner1 Patagonia Media Festival
- Winner12 Festival Internacional de Cine Latino de Uruguay - LatinUy
- Finalist2 Kursaal Film Festival San Sebastián
- Selection1 Festival Internacional de Cine de Santa Elena
- Selection1 ArtDoc Film Festival
- Selection10 Doqumenta Festival Internacional de Cine y Narrativas de No Ficción
- Selection15 À L'est Film Festival
- Selection2 Festival de los Fracasos
- Selection9 Transcinema Festival Internacional de Cine
- Selection1 Afro Civilization Fair
- Selection1 Festival de Cine Incontrastable
- Selection1 Festival de Cine y Radio Comunitario El Lugar que Habitamos
- Selection1 Festival Internacional De Cine L'HIFF - Barcelona
- Selection1 Osaka International Film Festival
- Selection1 Stir And Fry International Short Film Competition
- Selection10 Festival Internacional de Cine Documental ACAMPADOC
The remaining 36 festivals
- Selection10 Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Cine de la Culata
- Selection10 Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival
- Selection11 Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival
- Selection11 Farcume: Festival Internacional De Curtas-metragens De Faro
- Selection12 Festival Internacional de Cine de Santander - Picknic Film Festival
- Selection14 Espejos Y Espejimos: Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina
- Selection14 Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de la UVAQ
- Selection17 Montreal International Black Film Festival
- Selection18 Festival Internacional Piriápolis de Película
- Selection19 Vancouver Latin American Film Festival
- Selection2 Festival De Cortometrajes Parwarimun Muhu
- Selection2 FFTG Awards
- Selection21 Festival Iberoamericano de Cinema de Sergipe - CURTA-SE
- Selection3 Dili International Film Festival
- Selection3 Festival Internacional de Cine Austral
- Selection3 Kalakari Film Fest
- Selection3 Z-SHORTS International Film Festival
- Selection4 Festival Nacional de Cine de Rioverde - FENACIR
- Selection4 Film Festival Senior Movie
- Selection4 Muica - Muestra Itinerante De Cine Africano
- Selection5 Etnovideográfica
- Selection5 Festival de Cine de Ensenada
- Selection5 Festival de Cine Independiente de Sogamoso
- Selection5 Festival Internacional de Cine de Tequila
- Selection5 Halifax Black Film Festival
- Selection6 AQP Audiovisual y Cine Festival
- Selection6 Festival Internacional de Cine de Taxco
- Selection7 Festival Internacional de Cine de Guayaquil
- Selection8 Construir Cine - Festival Internacional de Cine sobre el Trabajo
- Selection8 Festival de Cine de Paracho
- Selection8 Festival de Cine de Trujillo
- Selection8 Festival Internacional de Cine de Puerto Madryn MAFICI
- Selection8 Festival Itinerante Cine en Mi Barrio
- Selection10 Festival de Cine de los Llanos
- Selection8 Festival Nacional de Cine de Huánuco
- SelectionLift-Off Sessions December 2020
Recorded by the filmmaker on their entry.
Director's Biography
Víctor Augusto Mendívil Director
Víctor Augusto Mendívil was born in Lima, Peru. He is 37 years old. He has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). He previously worked on the short films "Pucara, Ceramic Makers", "This guy has died and has not found out" and "The country of Yanacocha". In 2019, he won the National Contest for Audiovisual Training and entered the international Workshop: "Observation Documentary: An Author's Look", of the EICTV of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. "Got lost" (2019), co-directed with Miky Yuste, was his first short documentary. "One-way Ticket" (2020) is his second documentary short film. He is also in the development of the feature documentary project "The Good Pastures" and has just accessed the online Workshop "Writing for Documentary Cinema" of the EICTV of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
