During the International Uranium Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro’s prestigious Modern Art Museum Cinematheque on May 26, Takashi Morita and Kunihiko Bonkohara received the festival's Honorary 

Life Time Achievement Award, a trophy produced by Brazilian waste-material-artist Getúlio Damado. Getúlio creates the Uranium Film Festival Award from waste material, that he finds in the streets of Santa Teresa. He uses also old watches to remember the first atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Watches in Hiroshima stopped exactly at 8:15 in the morning when the A-bomb exploded on August 6th, 1945. 

 

 

 

Some of the A-Bomb survivors – known in Japanese as Hibakusha – were among a wave of 20th-century migrants who moved across the world in search of a better life after Japan surrendered to the US. Some came to live in Brazil including Takashi Morita and Kunihiko Bonkohara. Later in 1984 Morita founded in São Paulo the Associação das Vítimas da Bomba Atômica no Brasil representing the about 100 A-Bomb survivors living in Brazil. Photo: Takashi Morita (right) and Kunihiko Bonkohara (left) with the Award of the International Uranium Film Festival. Photographer Suchanek.

 

In addition to the festival's Honoray Life Time Achievement Award to the Hibakusha in Brazil the International Uranium Film Festival 2019 awarded the new documentary THE SISTERS OF NAGASAKI by Alain Vézina from Quebec with the festival’s Special Recognition. THE SISTERS OF NAGASAKI tells the true story of eight Catholic nuns from Quebec who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945.

 

 

 

IUFF Rio 2024 Final / Premiação 

IUFF Rio 2024 Opening/ Abertura