The 5th International Uranium Film Festival starts April 15 in Quebec City, the worlds most important film festival on nuclear age on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb.
"You won't leave the way You came!"
The International Uranium Film Festivals has reached its 5th year. The Brazilian born festival is the world's largest showcase for movies and documentaries about nuclear power, from uranium mining to nuclear waste, from Hiroshima to Fukushima. This year, 2015, the Uranium Film Festival marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb and will be held for the first time in Canada, Quebec.
The festival runs from April 15 to 25 in Quebec City in the Le Concorde Hotel. Further film screenings will be April 18 in Mistassini, the largest community of the James Bay Crees in Quebec, and April 23 in Montreal.
The films selected for the Uranium Film Festival 2015 compete for the festival's "Yellow Oscar Award" in different categories. The winners will be announced on Saturday evening, April 25th, at the award and closing ceremony of the festival in Quebec City. After the festival in Quebec the International Uranium Film Festival continues in Brazil. July 9 to 19 it is in Rio de Janeiro's Modern Art Museum (Cinemateque) and October 5 to 7 in Florianopolis.
Some of the Highlights of the Uranium Film Festival 2015 are:
ATOMIC BOMBS ON THE PLANET EARTH, a short film by British visionary artist and famous film director Peter Greenaway.
"ARE VAH !", a new French Documentary about nuclear power in India, Director: Micha Patault and Sarah.
INSEPARABLE (MOTYLKI), a new fiction movie by Vitaliy Vorobyov about the nuclear accident of Chernobyl
The official poster of the 5th International Uranium Film Festival was inspired by the poster of the 62nd Festival de Cannes 2009, which was itself inspired by a still from Antonioni's l’Avventura (1960). Photo credit: L'Avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni. Société cinématographique Lyre - Cino del Duca ©AFFIF
Festival contact:
info@uraniumfilmfestival.org
www.uraniumfilmfestival.org
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