"You won't leave the way you came!"

A two-day event showcasing must watch films for anyone interested in learning more about the reality of nuclear warfare.

 

Wednesday 24th August 2022

19:30 - Discussion and drinks

 

Thursday 25th August 2022

19:00 - Discussion, drinks and Q & A with Paul Griego

 

The Uranium Film Festival in Bergen is hosted in collaboration with

the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in Norway (ICAN Norway) 

and Norwegian Physicians against Nuclear weapons (IPPNW Norway).

 

 

 

Directed by Jeff Daniels, Country of Origin: USA / Australia, Completion Date: 2020, Running time: 90 mins

 

"The Kid stays in the picture“ meets "The Atomic Cafe“ in this archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of a commercial television network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing America"s most watched, most controversial made- for-TV-movie, The Day After , in 1983. This film addresses a universal challenge - grasping how vast global issues such as climate change, the refugee crisis and in this case nuclear proliferation affect us personally. We have much to learn from how this television network took a subject so terrifying, so unpalatable and turned it into prime-time family viewing. With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection with an audience of over 100 million and forced an urgent conversation with the US President on his policy towards nuclear proliferation. The film has received 92% on rotten tomatoes. 

The film won the Best Documentary Feature Award of the International Uranium Film Festival 2022 in Rio de Janeiro.

 

Discussion and drinks

 

​Directed: Stanley Kubrick Country of Origin: United States,  Completion Date: 1964, Running time: 95 mins

An insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. The film features at number 68 on IMDBs top 250 movies of all time, and received 4 Oscar nominations in 1965.

 

Directed by Greg Mitchell, Country of Origin: United States, Completion Date: 2021, Running time: 52 minutes

 

The film won the Best Archival Documentary Award of the International Uranium Film Festival 2021.

Along with numerous awards at film festivals around the world.

The widely-acclaimed 2021 film Atomic Cover-up is the first documentary to explore the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 from the unique perspective, words and startling images of the brave cameramen and directors who risked their lives filming in the irradiated aftermath. It reveals how this historic footage, created by a Japanese newsreel crew and then an elite U.S. Army team (who shot the only color reels), was seized, classified top secret, and then buried by American officials for decades to hide the full human costs of the bombings, as a dangerous nuclear arms race raged. More film information!

 

 

Art & Awareness: A powerful poem video about the legacy of the US atomic bomb tests on the Marshall Islands and the Runit dome nuclear waste site (Plutonium dome) in the Enewetak Atoll. Best short film of the Uranium Film Festival 2018.

Paul Griego was a radiochemist and health physics technician during the 1977-1980 Marshall Islands Atomic Cleanup. He lived and worked in the Marshall Islands while performing the radiological survey. His work was used to determine what radioactive soil and debris was placed in a nuclear blast crater to be encased in the concrete Runit Dome. The Atomic Cleanup was an official humanitarian mission and Paul's mission is not over.  Today he is a researcher, advocate, and consultant for the Marshall Islands and the New Mexico State Commander of the National Association of Atomic Veterans.

 

The Uranium Film Festival Bergen 2022 - Background

The Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year has brought the dark specter of nuclear war back into the public spotlight. However despite the end of the cold war decades ago, the danger of nuclear war has been ever present since 1945. In recent years we have witnessed nuclear states spending trillions on new weapons and world leaders who threaten to use them. Many experts believe that the risk of a nuclear war breaking out today is as high or higher than during the cold war. 

The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) was founded in Rio de Janeiro in 2010 to raise public awareness about nuclear dangers. The first edtion of this in the world unique film festival happened in May 2011. Since that dozens of Uranium Film Festivals were organized around the globe. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Norway is working in collaboration with the Uranium Film Festival to bring this event to Norway for the first time in 2022. History has proven that public opinion actively shapes political policy. Now is the time when we need to engage with each other and our leaders, to shape policy that creates a safer world for us all.

The films we are screening seek to educate, inform and motivate our guests. We have chosen a program that combines cinema and TV classics with recent documentaries. Some of them are comical and some are deeply horrifying, but all are a must watch for anyone interested in learning more about the reality of nuclear warfare. The founders and directors of the International Uranium Film Festival are Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert G. Suchanek.

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