The 3rd International Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro selected 48 films from 16 countries as finalists for this year’s festival at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) Cinema. The films will compete for 3 Yellow Oscar Awards: Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, Best Animated Film

Uranium Film Festival 2013 Finalists (Title / Country/ Director)

FEATURE
ATOMIC BOMB HOME – Japan, 2012, Katsumi Sakaguchi , 65 min – world premiere ATOMIC IVAN – Russia, 2012, Vasily Barkhatov , 91min
ATOMIC MOM – Japan/USA, 2010, M. T. Silvia, 80 min
CHILDREN OF URANIUM – Romania, 2009, Adina Popescu, 64 min
CESIUM IBLODET – Sweden, 2009, Lars Westman, 70 min
DER BAUCH VON TOKYO (Tokyo’s Belly) – Germany, 2013, Reinhild Dettmer-Finke, 70 min – world premiere DOUBLE HAPPINESS URANIUM – Australia, 2012, Cole Larsen, 87 min – world premiere
FORBIDDEN GROUND FUKUSHIMA – Japan, 2012, Kazunori Kurimoto, 57 min – world premiere
FRIEDLICH IN DIE KATASTROPHE (Quietly into the Disaster) – Germany, 2012, Marcin El, 120 min
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI DOWNLOAD – Mexico/Japan, 2010, Shinpei Takeda, 73 min
IRAK: LES ENFANTS SACRIFIÉS DE FALLUJA (Falluja: A lost generation?) – France, 2011, Feurat Alani, 48 min NUCLEAR SAVAGE: The Islands of Secret Project – USA, 2012, Adam Jonas Horowitz, 87 min
THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA – USA, 2011, Don Argett, Sheena M. Joyce, 92 min
THE ULTIMATE WISH: ENDING THE NUCLEAR AGE – USA, 2012, Robert Richter, 40 min
THE FOUR CORNERS: A NATIONAL SACRIFICE AREA? – USA, 1983, Christopher McLeod, 58 min
U 4 URANIUM – Australia, 2011, Astral Jester, 72 min
UNDER CONTROL (Unter Kontrolle) – Germany, 2011, Volker Sattel, 98 min
URANIUM – TO DIE FOR (HaZman Hatzahov) – Israel, 2012, Shany Haziza, 54 min – world premiere URANIUM PROJECT – Italy, 2011, Alan Gard e Stefania Prandi, 43 min

SHORT
ACOUPHENES (White Noise) – France, 2004, François-Xavier Drouet , 17 min
ANATOMIA DI UNA BOMBA – Italy, 2006, Flaviano Masella, Angelo Saso, Maurizio Torrealta, 22 min ATOMIC FOOTPRINTS – Australia, 2006, Pip Starr, 14 min
BLACKWATER – Spain, 2012, Karlos Alastruey, 4 min
CAETITÉ – Brasil, 2013, Laura Pires, 35 min
CURIOSITY KILLS – Estonia, 2012, Sander Maran, 14 min
ENOLA – Germany, 1986, Christoph Boekel, 28 min
EXCLUSION ZONE – Spain, Omar Kardoudi , 13 min
FUOCO AMICO: RITORNO NEI BALCANI – Italy, 2010, Terra Project Photographers, 10 min GET UP STAND UP – India, Sreemith, 34 min
HALBWERTSZEIT (Half Life) – Germany, 2012, Anne-Katrin Kiewitt, Alice von Gewinner, 20 min HIGH POWER – India, 2013, Pradeep Indulkar, 27 min – world premiere
KINTYRE – Australia, 2012, Curtis Tylor, 15 min
NO TO A NUCLEAR JORDAN – Jordan, 2012, Solenne Tadros, 7 min NUCLEAR WASTE – Ukraine, 2012, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, 25 min RETORN OF NAVAJAO BOY EPILOGUE – USA, 2008, Jeff Spitz, 15 min TAILINGS – USA, 2012, Sam Price-Waldman, 12 min
WAR ́S DUST – URANIUM BEIRUT – Italy, 2007, Flaviano Masella, Angelo Saso, Maurizio Torrealta, 23 min WOMEN OF FUKUSHIMA – Japan/Australia, 2012, Paul Johannessen, 27 min
YURI’S OMEN – Spain, 2012, Jordi Montornés, 14 min

ANIMATION
ABITA – Germany, 2012, Shoko Hara, Paul Brenner, 4 min
FAIRLIGHTS – Germany, 2013, Ilinca Höpfner, Helge Henning , 10 min, world premiere
HERR HOPPE AND THE NUCLEAR WASTE – Germany, 2011, Jan Lachauer & Thorsten Löffler , 4 min HIBAKUSHA – USA, 2012, Steve Nguyen, Choz Belen, 54 min
MOAB – Israel, 2012, Keren Zaltz, 3 min
SLOUCHING TOWARDS YUCCA MOUNTAIN – USA, 2011, Eve-Andrée Laramée, 17 min
THE LAST FLOWER – Iran, 2013, Sima Baghery, 6 min

Further selected films – not part of the Competition

BUDDHA WEEPS IN JADUGODA – India, 1999, Shriprakash, 55 min
WHEN THE DUST SETTLES – UK, 2011, 7 min