15th International Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro at Cinematheque of MAM Rio / May 21-30, 2026 with the participation of Filmmakers and nuclear experts from Germany, Canada, Spain and the United States. Free admission. 

 

 

Those who followed the successful Netflix miniseries "Radioactive Emergency" will be able to watch more movies for free on radioactive risks in Rio de Janeiro. From May 21 to 30, 2026, the 15th edition of the International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro (IUFF) - also known as Atomic Age Cinema Fest - is bringing together at the Cinematheque of the Modern Art Museum (MAM Rio) 31„atomic“ films from 18 countries, including 13 US productions, that address issues of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons and uranium mining.

Most of the films are Brazilian premieres. But „Too Late to Learn“, a new documentary by US director and producer Thomas Kanady, will have its world premiere in Rio. This documentary reveals the aftermath of a cleanup effort that began 21 years after the last atomic bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. "

„Too Late to Learn“" will be presented by Marshall Islands atomic Clean-up veteran Paul Griego and his daughter Sophie Griego.

 

German multimedia poetry artist Maja Hohenberg will present her poetic documentary "Albraum" (Nightmare of Radioactive Tailings), about her Grandfather who worked at the Wismut mine in East Germany that supplied uranium for thousands of Soviet atomic bombs.

 

Filmmaker Zoe Gordon is coming from Canada to present her film "The Moth," co-directed by Indigenous filmmaker Michelle Derosier of the Anishinaabe people. The short fiction film is based on real events, such as the construction of a nuclear waste repository in Canada.

 

Also present will be Spanish documentary filmmaker José Herrera Plaza, who lives in the region where an US tanker plane collided with a B-52 bomber during the Cold War on January 17, 1966. The plane was carrying four hydrogen bombs. The hydrogen bombs, about 75 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, fell from the sky over the coastal town of Palomares in Andalusia…

 

Another nuclear threat and source of radioactive contamination during the Cold War were the thousands of atmospheric and underground nuclear weapons tests conducted by the USA, the Soviet Union, China, France, Great Britain, India, Pakistan and North Korea. To remember this nuclear madness the festival opens this year with a remarkable Hollywood classic that already in 1954 criticized the first atomic Bomb tests like no other before. The Oscar-nominated movie „Them!“.  "Its gigantic ants, mutated by the fallout left behind in the aftermath of the Trinity atom bomb test, represent the potentially disastrous consequences of nuclear technology. Them! deserves to be recognised as a towering giant of the genre“, states the British Film Institute.

 

 

For 15 years the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) raises awareness about the risks of atomic power and promotes nuclear disarmament with independent films and panels of experts in Brazil, the USA and around the globe.  In October 2024, Hollywood's MovieMaker Magazine named it  one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024“. And in 2025, the festival's founders, Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek, received the prestigious "Nuclear-Free Future Award" in New York City in the category education.

 

„You’ve never seen two people get more done than the life and project-partner duo Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek, who run the International Uranium Film Festival in deep collaboration with activists around the world. The Uranium Film Festival is a refreshing example of what activism and advocacy can be: inclusive, expansive, and celebratory.“ Hadley Austin, MovieMaker Magazine

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