PRESS RELEASE

29 films from 17 countries and an exhibition from Hiroshima & Nagasaki to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

14th International Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro, at the Cinemateca do MAM Rio, from May 17 to 31, 2025.

Rio de Janeiro, May 8, 2025 — Rio de Janeiro’s “coolest” film festival kicks off on May 17 for the 14th time at the Cinematheque of the Modern Art Museum (MAM Rio). The International Uranium Film Festival, named as one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024” by Hollywood’s MovieMaker magazine, presents 29 short and feature-length films from 17 countries, of various styles and genres, on nuclear issues through May 31.

"2025 is a very special year," says festival director Márcia Gomes de Oliveira. "It is the 80th anniversary of the explosion of the first atomic bomb in New Mexico and the subsequent  atomic annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To this end, in addition to the atomic films, we will be presenting the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photo Poster Exhibition at the Cinematheque."

The posters, created and donated by the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, convey what actually happened under the giant mushroom clouds that darkened the skies of the two cities. By viewing the posters, visitors will be able to encounter the reality of the terrible damage wrought by nuclear weapons and understand the most cherished desire of the Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors)―that no one else should ever suffer as they did. 

It is worth remembering that the city of Rio de Janeiro and its mayor, Eduardo Paes, along with 104 other cities in Brazil, are members of the global organization Mayors for Peace, which is dedicated to contributing to the achievement of lasting world peace by raising awareness among the world's citizens for the total abolition of nuclear weapons. After the exhibition at the Cinemateca do MAM Rio, the exhibition may be shown in schools and other cultural centers in Rio and, who knows, it may even tour the state and the country.

Festival Presentation by the Directors

This year, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the first atomic explosion in New Mexico and the subsequent nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two US atomic bombs. And the nuclear threat continues today with more than 12,000 nuclear weapons held by nine countries.  

As President Kennedy once said at the United Nations in 1961: „Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. These weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.“ 

The 14th Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro has selected several exceptional films and documentaries to ensure that this nuclear threat is neither forgotten nor suppressed. We will kick off the festival with the science fiction classic based on the 1895 novel by H. G. Wells, who before any other author for-saw the possibility and devastating consequences of a nuclear war, The Time Machine. One part of humanity „survived“ deformed in atomic bunkers, while the other surviving humans on the surface serve them as „human cattle“.

The second opening film tells the true story of a brave Russian lieutenant who saved humanity from the horrors of nuclear war in 1983. Stanislav Petrov, The Man Who Saved the World, did not press the red button, even though the automatic early warning satellite system mistakenly ordered him to do so.

We'd also like to share something else with you that we're celebrating and very proud of. Last October, the Uranium Film Festival was named one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024" by the MovieMaker Magazine in Hollywood. This year, in March 2025, we, the festival founders, received the honorable Nuclear-Free Future Award in New York City.

Serviço

14º Uranium Film Festival - Festival de Cinema da Era Atômica
17 a 31 de maio de 2025
 
Cinemateca do MAM Rio - Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Av. Infante Dom Henrique, 85. Parque do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro/RJ
https://mam.rio/cinemateca/agenda/este-mes/
 
Classificação 14 anos
Ingresso gratuito
https://mamrio.byinti.com/#/ticket/
Programação
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/pt-br/programacao-14o-uranium-film-festi...

Site do festival
www.uraniumfilmfestival.org

Kit Imprensa
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19DCQscawikIuqpk11Vx8507T5MRGQeEN...

Um dos festivais mais legais do mundo
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/pt-br/um-dos-festivais-mais-legais-do-mundo

Prêmio Nuclear-Free Future Award 2025
https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/pt-br/premio-nuclear-free-future-award-2025

Contato Imprensa
International Uranium Film Festival
Márcia Gomes de Oliveira
Email: uraniofestival@gmail.com
WhatsApp: 0055 21 972076704

Norbert G. Suchanek
Email: norbert.suchanek@uraniumfilmfestival.org