15TH INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL RIO DE JANEIRO AWARDS
Films from Canada, Spain, Germany, and the USA won the top awards at the 15th International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro. The awards ceremony took place on Saturday, May 30, 2026, at the Cinematheque of the renowned Museum of Modern Art (MAM Rio).
And these are the winners of the 15th International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro, May 21 - 30, 2026.
EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
ALBRAUM
Germany, 2026, Directed by Maja Hohenberg, Poetic Documentary, 20 min.
BEST INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARY FILM
BOMBSHELL
USA, 2025, Directed by Ben Loeterman & Gaia De Simoni, Documentary Feature, 80 min.
BEST EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
OUT OF CONTROL. REPORTS ON THE ATOMIC BOMB
Spain, 2023, Directed by Beatriz Caravaggio, Experimental Documentary, 50 min.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
THE ATOMIC SCREEN
Canada, 2025, Directed by Alain Vézina, Documentary, 52 min.
NATIVE SPIRIT AWARD
THE MOTH
Canada, 2025, Directed by: Michelle Derosier and Zoe Gordon, Short Fiction, 20 min.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
HIBAKUSHA – WANDERING SOUL
Brazil, 2025, Director: Joel Yamaji, Short documentary, 20 min
HOLLYWOOD BOMB - HOW PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND GENERAL GROVES DESTROYED THE FIRST NUCLEAR EPIC
USA, 2026, Director: Greg Mitchell, Short documentary, 15 min.
THE ALPACA CONNECTION
USA, 2025, Director: Tom Brown, Comedy thriller short, 18 min.
Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award
TOO LATE TO LEARN
USA, 2026, Director: Thomas Kanady, Documentary, 68 min.
HONORARY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Paul Griego, Marshall Islands Atomic Clean-up Surviver from New Mexico, USA. Paul was one of the young men and teenagers given the impossible task to clean up the nuclear fallout and debris during the 1977-1980 Marshall Islands Atomic Cleanup. During the failed attempt to decontaminate these radioactive islands we built a massive containment dome on Runit Island which sits in a nuclear blast crater. It is now known as the Runit Dome.
