Germany, 2012, 4 min, no dialogue
Animation
World Premiere

Animated short film about Fukushima children who can't play outside. About their dreams and realities.

Bachelor in 2012 of Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner

Sound design and Music: Lorenz Schimpf
Teachers: Prof. Klaus Birk, Alexander Hanowski, Martin Hesselmeier
DHBW Ravensburg, Studiengang Mediendesign

Director Paul Brenner present, Munich 2013

Brazil, 2002, 4 min, Portuguese
Fiction

One of the first victims of the radioactive accident of Goiânia with Cesium-137 September 1987 was a 6 year old child. Leide das Neves had no time to play.

Australia, 2006, 14 min, English
Documentary

Australia is facing what could be the largest expansion of our nuclear industry ever, with the proposals for increased uranium mining, nuclear power generation and a radioactive waste dump. This film looks at some of the reasons why we must continue to oppose nuclear proliferaton.

Japan/USA, 2010, 80 min, English, English subtitles
Documentary

Atomic Mom weaves an intimate portrait of a complex mother-daughter relationship within an obscure moment in American history. Pauline Silvia, the filmmaker's mother, undergoes a crisis of conscience about her work in the military during the early 1950's Atomic Testing Program.

The film follows these mothers, each on a different end of atomic warfare, as they attempt to understand the other.

United Kingdom, 2010, 71 min, English
Directors and Producers: Meera Patel and Wolfgang Matt
Production: Maddmovies
Documentary

A story about the biggest weapons of mass destruction ever created, the people who use them and, more importantly, the people who fight them. 'Beating the Bomb' charts the history of the British peace movement against the backdrop of the atomic age. The film also frames the nuclear weapons issue within the wider context of global justice.Beating the Bomb, United Kingdom, 2010, 71 min.

www.beatingthebomb.com, contact:  maddmovies@gmail.com

"Beating the Bomb" was selected by the Uranium Film Festival Jury as one of the eight best documentaries of the festival.
Best documentary award, Red Rock Film Festival, Utah, USA

(Ragi Kana Ko Bonga Buru)
India, 1999, 52 min, English
Documentary
Not part of the Competition

"Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda" is a documentary film on uranium mining and its deadly impacts on the tribal people living near the Jadugoda mine, mill and tailings dam, in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand (India). Unsafe mining, milling and tailings management by UCIL in this area for almost 30 years has resulted in excessive radiation, contamination of water, land and air, destruction of the local ecology, and lead for to genetic mutation, and slow death for the people of the region. The film attempts to depict the gross misuse of power by the authorities in displacing the original inhabitants of the region, the utter lack of concern for internationally accepted norms and safety precautions in the handling of uranium and its by-products, and their callousness of its disastrous impact on the people and the region.

Director Shri Prakash present, Berlin 2012

Q&A with Shriprakash + RAOUF DABBAS, Amman 2014

(Verstrahlt und vergessen, Tschernobyl und die Folgen)
Germany, 2006, 59 min, German/ Russian, English Subtitle
Production: ARTE – WDR
Brazilian Premiere

April 26th 1986. The day a nightmare scenario became horrific reality: the day reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl atomic power station exploded. While researching and filming this project filmmaker Christoph Boekel met numerous victims of the atomic catastrophe. His own wife was one them and she, too, died of cancer. A moving film told from the personal perspective of the director, it is a requiem for the often forgotten victims of the disaster and a caveat against putting blind trust in technological advancement.

USA, 1991, 29 min
Documentary

The documentary uncovers the disastrous health and environmental side effects caused by the production of nuclear materials by the General Electric Corporation. The film juxtaposes GE's rosy "We Bring Good Things to Life" commercials with the true stories of people whose lives were devastated by the company's involvement in testing and making nuclear weapons. Driven by intensely personal testimony and painstaking research, "Deadly Deception" exposes what GE never wanted its customers to know: a shocking pattern of negligence and misinformation spanning several decades. Nine months after this film won the Oscar®, GE pulled out of its work in the nuclear weapons industry, and Corporate Accountability International organizers of the GE boycott, declared victory in their grassroots campaign. The 1991 Academy Award®- winner for Best Short Documentary, Deadly Deception unco-vers the disastrous health and environmental side effects caused by the production of nuclear materials by the General Electric Corporation. The film juxtaposes GE's rosy "We Bring Good Things to Life" commercials with the true stories of people whose lives were devastated by the company's involvement in testing and making nuclear weapons.

Contact: www.groundspark.org

Spain, 2011, 13 min, English
Fiction

A man breaks into an apartment carrying a big black backpack. He is wearing an anti radiation suit. The place looks abandoned the radiation levels are crazy high. Then he looks around and starts searching for things to steal. Soon he will realize he is not alone.

What happens inside an exclusion zone where no one is supposed to be? Is there any people left? If that's the case, are they suffering? This short is meant to answer all those questions.

USA, 2012, 18 min, Japanese/English, English subtitles
Producer: Yoko Kumano
Documentary
World Premiere

The film addresses the isue of radiation in food after the March 11, 2011, Fukushima desaster. The film features interviews with food producers, restaurant owners and new parents about the food consumption has changed after the nuclear accident and the contamination of the food chain with radioactive elements.

Japan, 2012, 57 min, Japanese, English subtitles
Documentary

World Premiere

It is a documentary on the aftermath of the disaster in Fukushima.

Someone said "Fukushima, it's like a parallel world". It's another world. Apparently, from the outside, everything looks normal. Outside the exclusion zone of 20km, life continues as before, but not quite, this is only an appearance. The danger is invisible. My challenge is: how to make visible what is invisible.

États-Unis | 1997 | 9 min | Animation
Réalisateur: Karen AQUA (1954 - May 30th, 2011) /
Musique par Ken Field
Version originale : Aucun dialogue

Synopsis : Dans le sud du centre du Nouveau-Mexique, un ancien site d’art rupestre amérindien est situé à 35 miles du site de l’explosion de la première bombe atomique de l’histoire. La juxtaposition de ces deux sites apporte un contraste frappant entre les deux mondes qui les ont créés ; celui qui vénère et vit en harmonie avec le monde naturel, et qui, en s’efforçant de contrôler les forces de la nature, a créé, une arme pour sa destruction. 

Le site Web de Réalisateur : http://karenaqua.com

Prix
Humboldt International Film Festival, CA, 1998: 1st Prize, Animation
Marin County National Festival of Short Films, CA, 1998: 1st Prize, Animation
Green Extreme Film Festival, Canada, 1999: Best Environmental Film
Prix Leonardo, Italy, 1999: Gold Certificate
International Uranium Film Festival SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2012

(Herr Hoppe und der Atommüll)
Germany, 2011, 4 min
Producer Filmakademie Baden – Württemberg
Animation

A barrel of nuclear waste drops into the living room of Herr Hoppe an average suburbian German. He has to get rid of it and does it in his own wacky way.

(Hibakusha - Unser Leben zu Leben)
USA, 2010, 78 min, English with German subtitles.
Memory Productions
Documentary

The stories of Japanese, Korean, and American Hibakusha: Survivers of the atomicbombs. Their stories are linked to the relationship between Eiji Nakanishi (one of youngest survivors of Hiroshima) and his little friend, Yoko, an eight year old girl he teaches to play the guitar. Little by little she learns about Eiji's hiba-kusha experience. She becomes intrigued by colorful pictures and drawings made by the survivors. Then she discovers Sadako and the story of the Thousand Cranes. "Will Eiji take me to thePeace Festival in Hiroshima?" The bombing of Nagasaki is shown through the sharp focus of a Shinto wedding ceremony. Back in America, Davey throws down his tin pot and wooden spoon of his Hiroshima-Nagasaki celebrations.

www.hibakusha-ourlifetolive.org

Japon | 88 minute 40 | 2009 | Documentaire.
Réalisateur : Takashi Itoh | Producteur : Takashi Itoh.
Version originale : Japonaise et coréenne | Soustitres: anglais.

Est-ce que l’expérience de la bombe atomique chez la jeune génération de japonais peut vraiment être comprise? Comment ce souvenir peut rester en vie pour la génération à venir? En descendant la côte ouest-américaine, visitant 18 survivants de la bombe atomique ainsi qu’un survivant de l’holocauste,
deux jeunes Japonais sont témoins des moments les plus intimes de leur vie et se voient révéler la nature cruelle des cicatrices psychologiques. Avec le vaste paysage de l’Ouest américain en arrièrefond, les deux réfléchissent sur leur relation à l’histoire contemporaine du Japon. Le réalisateur Shinpei
Takeda a suivi les survivants des bombardements atomiques en Amérique du Nord et du Sud pendant les 5 dernières années. Site du film : http://www.shinpeitakeda.info/2012/01/23/hiroshima-nagasakidownload/

Prix
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, International Uranium Film Festival, Rio 2013

USA, 2003, 29 min, English
Documentary

Latin American Premiere

Shows the impossibility of evacuation at Indian Point nuclear power plant outside NY City. Produced after the 9/11 terror attack on New York City and the terrorists announced they had targeted the Indian Point Nuclerar Power station but decided to fly by it to the Twin Towers instead.

Tobe Carey will attend the screening (New York, 2014).

Germany / Ukraine, 2011, 19 min, Russian, English Subtitles 
Animated documentary
Producer: Tetyana Chernyavska

Yellow Oscar Best Animation Film 2012

A Soviet family searching for a modest paradise is swept into an immense disaster. This magically animated film combines drawing, photography and documentary video to capture the surreal emotions of the too-real tragedy: Chernobyl 1986.

Australia, 2010, 10 min
Documentary

Muckaty Voices is a short film capturing Aboriginal community resistance to an Australian government plan to dump low and long lived intermediate level radioactive waste at Muckaty Station, 120km north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. The government's push for Muckaty has sparked widespread criticism from the targeted community, trade unions, national health and environment groups and Indigenous organizations. A federal court challenge has been launched to contest the Muckaty nomination. The film presents the country and community affected by this proposal.

The film was produced for the Muckaty Traditional Owners by Enlightning Productions, with support of Beyond Nuclear Initiative: www.beyondnuclearinitiative.com 

États-Unis | 2012 | 87 min, Documentaire.
Réalisateur : Adam Jonas Horowitz.
Version originale : Anglaise | Sous-titres: français.

Issu de documents récemment déclassifiés du gouvernement américain, ce documentaire présente le témoignage des survivants, et des images d’archives jamais vues. Nuclear Savage découvre l’un des chapitres les plus troublants de l’histoire américaine moderne ; comment les habitants des îles Marshall, considérés comme une culture civilisée, ont été délibérément utilisés comme cobayes humains pour étudier les effets des retombées nucléaires. Entre 1946 et 1958 les États-Unis ont testé 67 armes nucléaires au-dessus du sol, sur ou près des îles Bikini et Enewetok atolls. La bombe à hydrogène est 1000 fois plus puissante que la bombe d’Hiroshima. Des Îles entières ont été vaporisées et les îles habitées ont été recouvertes par les retombées. Les gens fortement exposés de Rongelap ont ensuite été inscrits comme des sujets humains dans le top-secret Project 4.1 et évacués vers une île fortement contaminée pour étudier les effets de la consommation d’aliments radioactifs pendant près de 30 ans. Beaucoup d’habitants des îles Marshall ont développé des cancers et ont eu des enfants qui étaient mort-nés ou avec des malformations congénitales graves. 

Nuclear Savage suit les insulaires dans leur lutte pour la justice et la reconnaissance de ce qui leurs a été fait. Malgré les récentes révélations, le gouvernement américain continue de nier que les insulaires ont été délibérément utilisés comme cobayes humains. Le film soulève des questions troublantes sur le racisme, l’obligation morale du gouvernement américain pour les habitants des îles Marshall, et pour quelle raison le gouvernement continue de cacher les tests du Project 4.1 après plusieurs décennies. 

Prix
AUDIENCE AWARD, Best Film Cinema Planeta International Festival, Mexico
JURY PRIZE, Best Feature Documentaire, Paris/FIFE International Festival of Environmental Films
JURY PRIZE, Chicago Peace on Earth Film Festival
YELLOW OSCAR, Best Feature Documentaire, International Uranium Film Festival Rio 2013

(Pedra Podre)
Brazil, 1990, 26 min, Portuguese with English subtitles
Documentary

It is the first Documentary made about the Brazil's nuclear power plants, Angra 1 and Angra 2 in the Atlantic Rainforest region in the South of Rio de Janeiro. With ironic humor, it shows that the official safety and evacuation plans to protect the local population and tourists in case of a nuclear meltdown are just a joke. Worse: Angra 1 and 2 are constructed on a beach, which the indigenous population (Guarani-Mbyá) called once Itaorna: Rotten Rock.

USA, 2011, 17 min, English subtitles
Experimental

Twelve fictional time-travelers explore the post-atomic age American West, when they discovered the abandoned tunnels beneath Yucca Mountain Radioactive Waste Repository, in this sixteen-minute long Experimental SciFiction Punk Western.

www.evelaramee.com

USA, 2011, 92 min, English

In 2010, the United States announced the first new nuclear power plant construction in over 32 years. The "Nuclear Renaissance" was born, and American's long stared expasion of nuclear energy was infused with new life.

(O Pesadelo é Azul)
Brazil, 2008, 24 min, Portuguese/German, English subtitles

In 1987 in Goiânia took place one of the biggest radioactive accidents of the world. Twenty years later the survivers are telling what happened and about their live after the accident. The short film won the Award as best documentary of the 6thABD Cine Goiás Festival (Troféu Pedra Goiâna) 2008.

Poland/USA, 2011, 52 min, Russian, English subtitles
Production: Miroslaw Grubek, Slawomir Grunberg
Documentary
Yellow Oscar Nomination

The Red Button is a 52-minute documentary film that tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war.

During the early '80s, the Russian leader was Jurij Andropov, the most right-wing Soviet leader since Stalin. A known hardliner, Andropov was very wary of US activity. It was an intense period of time in the relationship between the United States and Russia. Tensions were running high between the two superpowers, and the atmosphere was suspicious because of recent incidents. On September 5th, a Korean jet liner with 269 passengers, many of whom were American, had been shot down over Soviet territory because the Russians believed it was a spy mission. The action led Reagan to label Russia an "evil empire." Soon after, the KGB communicated to the western operatives to prepare for possible nuclear war. It is now thought that throughout 1983, the Kremlin assumed that the US and its allies were planning a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union.

So it was in this tense environment that Stanislav Petrov worked deep inside Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker, monitoring early warning satellites. On September 26, 1983, Pietrow was in charge of monitoring American missiles that could potentially be sent to Russia to start a nuclear war. It was not his normal duty; he was to man the post twice a month just to keep his skills from getting rusty. Shortly after midnight, Petrov noticed a missile on his screen. Thinking it was a possible error, he nervously ignored it and waited for any other indications of war. Several minutes later, things became much more serious: four more missiles appeared and a flashing red warning sign began asking him to confirm an incoming attack. By pressing the red button, Petrov would have sent the information up the chain of command to Jurij Votincev, the Commander in Chief of the Russian missile defense, and then to Jurij Andropov who was in charge of the new "nuclear suitcase" and who would have undoubtedly called for a counterattack.

Petrov knew he only had about fifteen minutes to decide what he would do before the missiles would reach the Soviet Union. If he didn't pass the information along, Petrov would be ignoring orders and taking responsibility into his own hands. The protocol, which Petrov had written himself, clearly indicated that the correct course of action would be to inform the Commander in Chief. 120 panicked military officers and engineers sat behind him, looking at the screen and waiting for his decision. "Everyone jumped from their seats looking at me," says Petrov. "What could I do? There was a procedure that I had written myself." The future of the world was in the 44-year-old Russian officer's hands as he wrestled with the decision of whether or not to use Russia's atomic button. In a bold move, however, Petrov decided against it, blaming the signals on faulty equipment instead of imperialistic aggression. At the time, he was not sure he had made the right choice.

Fortunately for all of us, Petrov made the correct decision. His reasoning was that if the Americans were going to start an atomic war, they would have sent hundreds of missiles, not just five.

USA, 2012,40 min, English/Japanese/French, English subtitles 
Co-production Kathleen Sullivan
Documentary

Moving, unforgettable living witnesses who survived two of the world's most momentous radiation crises: Nagasaki in 1945 and Fukushima in 2011.

They are interlaced with nuclear experts and archival footage, some shocking, illuminating the largely unrecognized connection between nuclear weapons and nuclear power, and the growing global movements to abolish both.

The documentary is both a tragic and an inspirational example of courageous women in the face of environmental catastrophes and an alert to everyone today about the dangers of continued nuclear proliferation and nuclear power.

http://richtervideos.com/TheUltimateWish/

Director will be present (New York 2014)

Canada | 1990 | 48 minutes | Documentaire.
Réalisateur : Magnus Isacsson (1948 - 2012).
Producteur : Office national du film du Canada.
Version originale : Anglaise.

Synopsis : Ce film expose les problèmes éthiques et environnementaux qui entourent la pratique de l’extraction de l’uranium au Canada. Le film présente des faits percutants et peu connus sur les effets néfastes de l’exploitation minière de l’uranium sur l’environnement ainsi que sur la santé de ceux qui travaillent dans l’industrie. Les déchets toxiques radioactifs sont un sous-produit très dommageable de l’exploitation minière de l’uranium. Il a été prouvé qu’ils causent des dommages environnementaux à long terme. Les mêmes déchets radioactifs exposent les mineurs à des risques extrêmes de développer des cancers. Enfin, parce que la plupart des industries minières à ce jour ont été établies sur des terres historiquement occupées par les populations autochtones du Canada, l’exploitation minière de l’uranium viole la vie économique, spirituelle et traditionnelle de nombreux peuples des premières nations.

Site web du film : www.socialdoc.net/magnus et remorque : https://www.nfb.ca/film/uranium

Prix
Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival in 1991

France | 52 min | Documentaire
Réalisateur: Dominique Hennequin / Producteur:
Nomades TV
Français and Anglais

Synopsis : Une enquête choquante dans les mines d’uranium en Afrique. Nous visitons trois zones touchées par l’industrie de l’uranium; Mounana où l’activité a cessé. Arlit, où les mines ont été actives depuis 40 ans, et d’Imouraren, un futur site. Géant de l’énergie française, la compagnie Areva est sortie de
Mounana, au Gabon, en 1999. La mine d’uranium Comuf a été fermée et recouverte. En fait, d’un coup d’oeil, c’est presque comme si la mine n’avait jamais existé. Cependant, Mounana souffre d’un niveau extrêmement dangereux de pollution radioactive. Le sol et les rivières sont toxiques; même les maisons ont un compteur Geiger huit fois plus élevé que la limite de sécurité. Ces maisons ont été construites en utilisant des matières radioactives. 

Site web du film : http://www.javafilms.fr/spip.php?article311

À Arlit, au nord du Niger, nous rencontrons des problèmes similaires, y compris un nombre anormalement élevé de cancers du poumon. Maintenant que la compagnie Areva a quitté, les anciens mineurs doivent payer pour leurs propres soins de santé. En dépit des affreux dommages causés aux populations locales sur les sites précédents, une autre mine est en construction, en Imouraren. Le résultat d’un accord colossal entre les gouvernements de la France et du Niger, ce sera la plus grande mine à ciel ouvert jamais construite. La compagnie Areva affirme que la nouvelle mine n’empoisonnera pas la terre, mais la population locale est sceptique. 

Site du film: http://www.javafilms.fr/spip.php?article311

Allemagne | 2010-2014 | 35 minutes (version
courte) | Documentaire.
Directeur : Joachim Tschirner.
Version originale : Anglaise.

Il s’agit d’une nouvelle version courte du long métrage documentaire «Yellow Cake. La saleté derrière l’uranium se concentre sur une mine d’uranium secrète en Allemagne de l’est, qui a produit pendant des décennies des «yellow cake» pour les bombes atomiques de l’Union Soviétique. C’était la troisième plus grande mine
d’uranium dans le monde, situé dans les provinces de Saxe et de Thuringe. Fonctionnant jusqu’à la réunification, elle avait le nom de code WISMUT - allemand de bismuth. Le film raconte l’histoire de la Wismut et accompagne depuis plusieurs années la première opération de nettoyage de l’histoire de l’exploitation minière de l’uranium. 

Site web du film : www.yellowcake-derfilm.de

Prix
YELLOW OSCAR, Best Short Documentary, International Uranium Film Festival Rio 2014 

Note de Réalisateur - « YELLOW CAKE » est le résultat d’un projet qui a débuté en 2002. « The World Uranium Hearing » a eu lieu il y a plus d’une décennie. La déclaration de cette audience est devenu la signification essentielle de mon film : « La radioactivité ne sait rien des différences culturelles ou les frontières politiques. Et dans un monde muté empoisonné par la radioactivité mortelle, il ne sera plus d’importance, si nous séparons nos déchets, conduisons moins de voitures, utiliser un détergent sans phosphate, ou planter un arbre. Nul importe si nous passons notre temps à essayer de sauver les éléphants. Quelle que soit l’action que nous prenons à ce point serait superflue et dépourvue de sens. C’est pourquoi la fin de l’ère atomique doit commencer par le premier maillon de la chaîne de production nucléaire - L’ extraction de l’uranium « Pendant mes recherches, j’ai fait l’expérience que, malgré son caractère explosif, l’exploitation minière de l’uranium fait rarement dans la sensibilisation du public. Le film « Yellow Cake » est ma réaction à cette situation inacceptable. Joachim Tschirner