Uranium Film Festival
Uranium Film Festival 2014 (Feb 14 to Feb 19)
About the International Uranium Film Festival
Climate Change, the Peak Oil and the still growing hunger for energy of modern societies: At the beginning of the 21th century the world is – like at the beginning of the 19th century – again in the search for a new direction. Is nuclear energy the solution for Climate Change and the growing demand for Energy as it is claimed by nuclear industry and scientists like James Lovelock, the author of the Gaia theory? Windscale (Sellafield), Harrisburg (Three Mile Island), Chernobyl, Goiania (Brazil): Radioactive and nuclear power accidents happen. Mining companies spreading around the world in search for new uranium deposits. And on the other side concerned citizens and indigenous peoples fighting against uranium mining projects in countries like Australia, India, Niger, Namibia, USA, Canada or Portugal. That was the background 2010 when we opened the film entry for the First International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) in Rio de Janeiro – it was one year before the Fukushima reactor exploded.
The International Uranium Film Festival (in Portuguese Urânio em Movi[e]mento) is the first annual film festival to highlight all nuclear and radioactive issues: nuclear fuel chain, uranium mining, atomic bombs, nuclear power plants, nuclear waste deposits – from Hiroshima to Fukushima. And the best and most important films of the year receive the Uranium Film Festival’s award, the “Yellow Oscar”.
After premiering in Rio de Janeiro at the Cinematheque Museum of Modern Art (MAM), the Festival travels to other major cities in Brazil and other countries. In past years it traveled to São Paulo, Recife, Salvador & Fortaleza, to Lisbon and Porto in Portugal, to Berlin and Munich in Germany, to ten major cities in India including New Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai and now it is coming to Washington DC & NYC.
The Uranium Film Festival Team thanks the Heinrich Böll Foundation Brazil and North-America for supporting us and The Pavilion Theater in Brooklyn for hosting the festival.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14
11 AM – NEW NUCLEAR ANIMATED FILMS
HERR HOPPE AND THE NUCLEAR WASTE – Germany, 2011, 4 min, Directors: Jan Lachauer and Thorsten Löffler, Animation, English
FAIRLIGHTS – Germany, 2013, min, Directors: Ilinca Höpfner & Helge Henning, Animation, Musical, English
AFTER THE DAY AFTER – USA, 2011, 6 min, Director and Producer: Nathan Meltz. Animation/ Experimental, English
THE LAST FLOWER – Iran, 2013, 6 min, Director: Sima Baghery, Fiction, Animation, no dialog
ABITA. CHILDREN FROM FUKUSHIMA – Germany, 2012, min, Directors: Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner, Animation, English subtitles
LEONID’S STORY – Germany / Ukraine, 2011, min, Director: Rainer Ludwigs, Producer: Tetyana Chernyavska, Animated Documentary, Russian, Subtitles English
HIBAKUSHA – USA, 2012, 54 min, Directors: Steve Nguyen and Choz Belen, Documentary with animation, English
1 PM – FILMS ABOUT NUCLEAR USA
SLOUCHING TOWARDS YUCCA MOUNTAIN – USA, 2011, 17 min, Director and Producer: Eve- Andrée Laramée. Experimental
THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA – USA, 2011, 92 min, Directors: Don Argott & Sheena M. Joyce. Documentary
3 PM – ABOUT URANIUM MINING
TAILINGS – USA, 2012, 12 min, Director: Sam Price-Waldman, Documentary, English
SACRED POISON – USA, 2011, 30 min, Director and Producer: Yvonne Latty. Documentary
URANIUM – Canada, 1990, 48 min, Director: Magnus Isacsson, Producer: National Film Board of Canada, Documentary, English.
5 PM – GERMANY’S SECRET URANIUM MINE WISMUT YELLOW CAKE.
THE DIRT BEHIND URANIUM – Germany, 2010, 108 min, Director: Joachim Tschirner, Documentary, English, www.umweltfilm.de
7 PM – AUSTRALIAN ATOMIC FILMS
ATOMIC FOOTPRINTS – Australia, 2006, 14 min, Director: Pip Starr, Documentary, English
KINTYRE – Australia, 2012, 15 min, Director: Curtis Taylor, Producer: Curtis Taylor and Eleonor
Winkler, Documentary, Martu and English, English subtitles
MUCKATY VOICES – Australia, 2010, 10 min, Director: Natalie Wasley. Documentary
AUSTRALIAN ATOMIC CONFESSIONS – Australia, 2005, 49 min, Director: Katherine Aigner, Documentary, English
9 PM – FILMS ABOUT NUCLEAR BOMB TESTS
ATOMIC BOMBS ON THE PLANET EARTH – UK/The Netherlands, 2011, 13 min, Director: Peter Greenaway, Producer: Video Design Irma de Vries, Experimental documentary, no dialog
NUCLEAR SAVAGE: THE ISLANDS OF SECRET PROJECT 4.1 – USA, 2012, 87 min, Director: Adam Jonas Horowitz, Documentary, Marshallese & English.
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15
11 AM – ABOUT HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI NUCLEAR BOMB SURVIVERS
HIBAKUSHA, OUR LIFE TO LIVE – USA, 2010, 87 min, Documentary, Director: David Rothauser, Memory Production, www.memoryproduction.org
1.15 PM – ABOUT NUCLEAR BOMB SURVIVERS & FUKUSHIMA
THE ULTIMATE WISH: ENDING THE NUCLEAR AGE – USA, 2012, 40 min, Director: Robert Richter, Co-Producer: Kathleen Sullivan. Documentary, English subtitles
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI DOWNLOAD – Mexico/Japan, 2010, 73 min, Director: Shinpei Takeda, Producer: Shinpei Takeda and Eiji Wkamatsu, Documentary, English
3.30 PM – NUCLEAR BOMB STORIES
MOAB – Israel, 2012, 3 min, Director: Keren Zaltz, Experimental Film, no dialog
THE LAST FLOWER – Iran, 2013, 6 min, Director: Sima Baghery, Fiction, Animation, no dialog.
ATOMIC MOM – Japan/USA, 2010, 80 min, Director: M. T. Silvia; Documentary, English, English subtitles
5.30 PM – FILMS ABOUT ATOMIC WAR RISK
THE NUCLEAR FAMILY – USA/Singapore, 2010, 2 min, Director: Angela How, Producer: Angela How and Morgan Faye, Fiction, English
AFTER THE DAY AFTER – USA, 2011, 6 min, Director and Producer: Nathan Meltz. Animation/ Experimental, English.
THE RED BUTTON (CZERWONY GUZIK) – Poland/USA, 2011, 52 min, Director: Ewa Pieta, Miroslaw Grubek, Documentary, Russian, English subtitles.
7.30 PM – NUCLEAR WEAPON INDUSTRY & MOVEMENTS AGAINST IT
DEADLY DECEPTION – USA, 1991, 29 min, Director: Debra Chasnoff. Documentary
BEATING THE BOMB – United Kingdom, 2010, 71 min, Directors: Meera Patel and Wolfgang Matt, Documentary, English, Maddmovies Production, www.beatingthebomb.com
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16
11 AM – FILMS INSPIRED BY THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT OF CHERNOBYL
EXCLUSION ZONE – Spain, 2011, 13 min, Director: Omar Kardoudi, Fiction movie, English
YURI’S OMEN – Spain, 2012, 14 min, Director: Jordi Montornés, Fiction movie, English subtitles
COFFEE BREAK – Sweden, 2011, 15 min, Director and Producer: Marko Kattilakoski, Comedy Thriller, Swedish, English subtitles
CHERNOBYL: THE INVISIBLE THIEF Germany, 2006, 59 min, Director and Producer: Chistoph Boekel. Documentary, German and Russian, English subtitles.
1.30 PM – FILMS ABOUT THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
ABITA. CHILDREN FROM FUKUSHIMA – Germany, 2012, 4 min, Directors: Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner, Animation, English subtitles
WOMEN OF FUKUSHIMA – Japan, 2012, 27 min, Director: Paul Johannessen, Documentary, English subtitles
FOOD AND RADIATION – USA, 2012, 18 min , Director and Producer: Yoko Kumano, Documentary, Japanese/English, English subtitles
TOKYO’S BELLY – Germany, 2013, 70 min, Director: Reinhild Dettmer-Finke, Producer:: Defi- Filmproduktion, Documentary, Japanese/German, English subtitles
3.30 PM – ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT RISKS
FORBIDDEN GROUND FUKUSHIMA – Japan, 2012, 57 min, Director and Producer: Kazunori Kurimoto. Documentary, Japanese, English subtitles
ROTTEN ROCK (PEDRA PODRE) – Brazil, 1990, 26 min, Directors: Eve Lise Silva, Ligia Girão, Stela Grisotti and Walter Behr, Documentary, Portuguese with English Subtitles
INDIAN POINT – NOWHERE TO RUN – USA, 2003, 29 min, Director: Tobe Carey, Documentary
5.45 PM – NUCLEAR FILMS FROM INDIA
HIGH POWER – India, 2013, 27 min, Director and Producer: Pradeep Indulkar, Documentary,
Marathi/English, English subtitles
BUDDHA WEEPS IN JADUGODA – India, 1999, 52 mins, Director: Shriprakash, Documentary, English
FOR THE SUPREME FIGHT (Original Title: “Gere Dan”), India, 2014, 48 min, Director: Shriprakash, French/English-with English subtitle. Worldpremier. The Indian Filmmakers Pradeep Indulkar and Shriprakash are present.
7.45 PM – NEW NUCLEAR COMEDIES
CURIOSITY KILLS – Estonia, 2012, 14 min, Director: Sander Maran, Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School; Estonian Academy of Arts, Comedy Thriller, no dialog
ATOMIC IVAN – Russia, 2012, 91 min, Director: Vasily Barkhatov, Producer: Telesto Film Company Romantic Comedy, Russian, English subtitles
MONDAY FEBRUARY 17
3.30 PM – NEW NUCLEAR SCIENCE FICTION
HALF LIFE (HALBWERTSZEIT) – Germany, 2012, 20 min, Directors: Anne-Katrin Kiewitt and Alice von Gwinner, Production: Bauhaus-University Weimar, Science fiction, English subtitles
DOUBLE HAPPINESS URANIUM – Australia, 2012, 87 min, Director Cole Larsen, Production: Tom Young, Science fiction.
5.30 PM – INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT URANIUM MINING IN AFRICA
URANIUM: A POISONED LEGACY – France, 2009, 52 min, Director: Dominique Hennequin, Production: Nomades TV, Charlotte Hennequin, Documentary, English
URANIUM – TO DIE FOR (HAZMAN HATZAHOV) – Israel, 2012, 54 min, Director: Shanny Haziza, Producer: Sasha Klein Production, Documentary, English/Hebrew, English subtitles
7.30 PM – DIRTY BOMBS: ABOUT THE USE OF URANIUM WEAPONS
BLOWIN IN THE WIND – Australia, 2005, 62 min, Director: David Bradbury, Documentary, English
FALLUJA: A LOST GENERATION? – Irak / France, 2011, 48 min, Director: Feurat Alani, Documentary, English
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18
3.30 PM – RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION ON NAVAJO LAND
GROUND ZERO – SACRED GROUND – USA, 1997, 9 MIN. DIRECTOR: KAREN AQUA, ANIMATION
DII’GO TO BAAHAANE: FOUR STORIES ABOUT WATER – USA, 2012, 37 minutes, Produced by Deborah Begel. Co-Directed by Deborah Begel and David Lindblom, Navajo with English subtitles.
THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY – USA, 2000, 57 min. Director Jeff Spitz, co-produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain. Contact: www.navajoboy.com
5.30 PM – RADIOACTIVE LEGACY IN USA
YELLOWCAKE – USA, 2009,10 min, Director: Brock Williams. www.boxcarfilms.com
NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE: A NUCLEAR INCIDENT IN LOCK HAVEN – USA, 2010, 73 min, Director: Bill Keisling, Documentary
7.30 PM – BRAZILIAN FILMS ABOUT ITS WORST RADIOACTIVE ACCIDENT
THE NIGHTMARE IS BLUE (O PESADELO É AZUL) – Brazil, 2008, 30 min, Director: Ângelo Lima, English Subtitles
AMARELINHA – Brazil, 2002, 4 min, Director Angelo Lima, Fiction, Portuguese.
CAESIUM 137: THE NIGHTMARE OF GOIÂNIA (CÉSIO 137. O PESADELO DE GOIÂNIA)
Brazil, 1989, 95 min, Director Roberto Pires, Production Laura Pires, Doc Fiction, English subtitles
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
4:30 PM
08:15 of 1945 Argentine/Brazil, 2012, 106 minutes, director Roberto Fernandez, production O Movimento Falso Filmes. Documentary, Portuguese with English Subtitels
6:30 PM
IN MY LIFETIME USA, 2011, Running Time: 109 minutes, Director Robert E. Frye
9:00 PM
QUIETLY INTO THE DISASTER (Friedlich in die Katastrophe) Germany, 2012, 120 min, English, Director: Marcin El, Producer: Holger Strohm