International Uranium Film Festival (14)

Festival start: 17 May 2025      Festival end: 31 May 2025

80 years Atomic Bomb - 15 Years International Uranium Film Festival / One year before the Fukushima reactor exploded, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) was founded in 2010 in Santa Teresa, the famous artist quarter in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. The first Uranium Film Festival then was held in May 2011. Main venue is the Cinematheque of Rio de Janeiro's Modern Art Museum (MAM Rio). The festival is dedicated to all films about nuclear power and the risks of radioactivity, from uranium mining to nuclear waste, from atomic bombs to nuclear power plants, from Hiroshima to Fukushima. It throws light on all nuclear issues.

With a selection of the best films the festival travels also to other cities and countries. Until today more than 80 Uranium Film Festivals took place in more than 40 cities and seven countries like Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Jordan, Portugal and USA. Since its first edition in Hollywood in 2016, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) is also known as The Atomic Age Cinema Fest.

The IUFF is a juried film Festival with both juror and audience award presentations

Jury Awards


Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature 

Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature 

Jury Award for Best Short Documentary 

Jury Award for Best Narrative Short 

Jury Award for Best Animated Film

Jury Award for Best Comedy Film
Jury Award for Best Student Film
Jury Award for Best Female Documentary

Samuel Lawrence Foundation Jury Award for Best Young Filmmaker. This special award is accompanied by a $1,000 cash prize donated by the Samuel Lawrence Foundation (SLF), https://www.samuellawrencefoundation.org

Audience Awards

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature 

Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature 

Audience Award for Best Narrative Short 

Audience Award for Best Documentary Short

The festival's award winners receive the festival trophy: a piece of art produced by Brazilian waste-material-artist Getúlio Damado who lives and works in the famous artist quarter Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro where the first International Uranium Film Festival was held in May 2011. For more than a decade Getúlio collects garbage and transforms it into "gold". Meanwhile his waste-art is part of exhibitions not only in Rio de Janeiro but also in São Paulo and other parts of the world. Getúlio creates the award from waste material that he finds in the streets of Santa Teresa. He uses also old watches to remember the first atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Watches in Hiroshima stopped exactly at 8:15 in the morning when the A-bomb exploded on August 6th, 1945.

The Uranium Film Festival is interested in productions dealing with nuclear power, radioactivity and the use of radioactive elements like uranium. From Hiroshima to Fukushima: nuclear war and atomic bomb tests, nuclear disasters like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima, uranium mining, the use of depleted uranium weapons, nuclear waste, radioactive contamination, nuclear medicine, films about nuclear scientists like Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, Otto Hahn or Albert Einstein. The festival accepts submissions of feature length and short length films in all genres: Documentary, Fiction, Experimental, Animation, Comedy, Romance, Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Suspense, Student productions... The festival is also interested in educational and image films about nuclear science, nuclear power, radioactivity. It is not mandatory that the films are new productions; they could have been produced at any time.