Welcome to the Uranium Film Festival!

Program

FESTIVAL 2013

Join us on May 16 - 26 at the Cinematheque Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro to discover films of all genres on nuclear issues and radioactivity. There are 52 works from 20 countries, including 9 world premieres. The Film Festival includes documentaries, fiction, animation and experimental art. This unique event is an opportunity not to be missed! We hope to see you there.

Director Statement

NAVAJO BOY KEEPS GOING

Jeff Spitz

"When I began work on this project in 1997 documentaries were intended for a tv screen or a movie screen. In the 1990s all public media was still controlled by gatekeepers at broadcast stations, film festivals and college cinemas. We didn't know if gatekeepers would allow an unheard-of Native American family to reach many audiences..." [...]

Director Statement

CESIUM IN MY BLOOD

Lars Westman

"A scrap merchant in Goiania, a million-town in Brazil com upon a heavy metal box in a pulled down hospital. He was happy, because of its weight. What he did not know, was that he find a deadly dangerous machine who should kill his people. And contaminate thousands of innocent people in the town..." [...]

From Hiroshima to Fukushima

SR. MORITA AT 26 MAY

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The Uranium Film Festival is held by the Yellow Archives, a non-profit, cultural and educational organization based in Rio de Janeiro. Our work is only made possible with the generous help from our community of supporters.

News

URANIUM CAETITÉ
PREMIERE IN MAM

Producer Laura Pires made her first film about uranium mining in the municipality of Caetité in Bahia. This is the first uranium mining in Bahia and supplies the plants Angra 1 and 2. The film opens May 23.

Laura Pires produced important films about Brazil's first nuclear accident in Goiania, 1987. [...]