Nuclear-Free Future Award 2025

After a successful tour across USA in 2024 and after the selection of the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF)  as one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024” by the prestigious MovieMaker Magazine in Hollywood, the IUFF founders, Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek, are now honored with the 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Award (Education). / Photos by Miguel Silveira /  The NFFA winners at UN Headquarters, New York

The Nuclear-Free Future Awards were held on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at The Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City. The event - a co-presentation of Beyond Nuclear and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Germany, an affiliate of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization IPPNW - took place during the Third Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons March 3-7 at the United Nations. Watch here the Nuclear-Free Future Awards on youtube.

The Nuclear-Free Future Awards (NFFA) were founded by German journalist, filmmaker and activist, Claus Biegert, in 1998 and were first held in Salzburg, Austria. Since then, the Awards have traveled the world, honoring the largely unsung heroes of the Nuclear Age who work to end uranium mining and rid the world of nuclear weapons, nuclear power and uranium munitions.

„The 2025 NFFA is a great honor for us and an obligation to continue what we started in 2010. Independent nuclear awareness through film and arts. Creating this critical film festival was a challenge against many adversities. We were running against the wind. It was above all the filmmakers and film producers from so many countries who believed in us, submitted their films and often traveled to our festival in Rio, Berlin or Window Rock at their own expense and who gave us the strength to continue. The Award shows the importance of our Uranium Film Festival, especially this year, which marks the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb explosion in New Mexico and the subsequent nuclear annihilation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No more Hibakusha!“ Márcia & Norbert

Photo: Special thanks go to Tsutomu Kono for the exceptional tour of the UN Headquarters in New York. Tsutomu Kono is a fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and a retired United Nations official who served for the Department/Office for Disarmament Affairs (DDA/ODA) for 25 years, advising seven Under-Secretary-Generals.

More information on the 2025 NFFA: 

https://beyondnuclear.org/2025-nuclear-free-future-award-laureates-annou...

Some Congratulations to Márcia and Norbert

Amazing! Congratulations! Well deserved!
Christian D. Bruun, Film Producer and Director, Denmark
 
Bravo!! This is a well deserved recognition of your important work.
It is gratifying to be part of your incredible programs.
Janice Haaken, Filmmaker, Portland
 
Congratulations! I am very happy for this well-deserved distinction, hoping for the Nobel Prize in the coming years. Long live the International Uranium Film Festival! Larbi Benchiha, Filmmaker, France

Congratulations on this great award. So well deserved. All the best. Bernie Finkelstein, Producer, Film director, Canada

Congratulations again. You are now beginning to reap the rewards of so many years of hard work and effort with the IUFF. I insist that these awards are the logical and fair consequence of having organized more than thirty editions of the festival in different countries. You are unique in the world in exposing the risks and lies of the civil and military nuclear industries and this deserves public recognition. Um abraço de Almeria. José Herrera Plaza, Filmmaker, Spain

Congrats. I can attest that it is super cool! Tony West, Filmmaker, USA
 
Wau! A huge congratulations to you both from me! Inussiarnersumik inuulluaqqusillunga / Med venlig hilsen, Inuk Jørgensen, Filmmaker, Greenland
 
Congrats, well-deserved....maybe will see you in NYC. Greg Mitchell, Filmmaker, USA
 
Congratulations on your award from Nuclear-Free Future and sending even more additional good thoughts for your work and the recognition of that work. I am so grateful for your efforts and for including me in the International Uranium Film Festival. Christopher Beaver, Producer, Filmmaker, USA
 
The award could not have been bestowed on more deserving recipients!  The award is so well deserved and earned.  Please accept our heartiest congratulations on this great achievement.  We salute you! Mariette Liefferink, CEO, Federation for Sustainable Environment, South Africa
 
This is beyond a celebration! Bart Ziegler PhD, President  
 
WOW!!! Feliz em acordar e ver essa notícia!! Maravilhoso!!! Parabéns!! Muito merecedor esta premiação, o trabalho é incrível! Muito nos sensibilizou, uma missão de consciência  para preservar a vida humana. Louis & Alcinda, Saphira and Ventura Media & Entertainment, NYC
 
And a heartfelt thank you to filmmaker Miguel Silveira from Chicago, who is actually accompanying us to shoot a film about the Uranium Film Festival and its founders. Also in the photo is Paul Griego, Marshall Islands Atomic Clean-up Surviver from New Mexico.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Contact
 
International Uranium Film Festival
www.uraniumfilmfestival.org
 
Márcia Gomes de Oliveira
Founder & Executive Director
Email: uraniofestival@ gmail.com
 
Norbert G. Suchanek
Founder & General Director
Email: norbert.suchanek@ uraniumfilmfestival.org
 
Libbe HaLevy
Ambassador of the International 
Uranium Film Festival to the USA
Los Angeles