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RETROSPEKTIVE 1. Uranium Film Festival 2011

16h00

Into Eternity

JURY AWARD BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world'sfirst permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

18h

Caesium 137: The nightmare of Goiânia

(Cäsium 137: Der Albtraum von Goiânia)

AUDIENCE AWARD BEST FEATURE FILM

In the ruins of a demolished hospital for cancer treatment in the centre of the Brazilian city Goiânia, two young men found an old "forgotten" Teletherapy Unit, which contained a highly radioactive "Caesium 137 bomb". They sold it to a local scrap metal dealer, who opened that Pandora's box. People were fascinated by the dazzling blue light of the caesium crystals. But they did not know, that it was the shine of the death. Hundreds if not thousands of the citizens and visitors of Goiânia became victims of Caesium 137. The script of the movie is based on statements by the victims and medical personal attending the victims, taken by Roberto Pires at the time of the accident.

Brazil, 1989, 95 min, Director: Roberto Pires, Producer: Laura Pires

Freitag, 29. Juni

OPENING 2nd International Uranium Film Festival

18h00

Atomic Bombs on The Planet Earth

"Very surprisingly from 1945 to 1989 - there have been 2201 atomic bombs dropped on the planet Earth - an astonishing number of atomic bombs implying huge destruction and fall-out. The film shows evidence of every bomb explosion documented with the nation responsible, the date and location, the force and the height about earth or sea level in a relentless build up of accumulating destruction that is both awe-inspiring and dreadful in the true biblical sense of of the phrase - full of dread".

Netherlands/United Kingdom, 2011, 12 min, Director: Peter Greenaway, Production: Change Performing Arts of Milan.

Nuclear Shelter (Abrigo Nuclear)

In the future ... Due to radioactive pollution of the environment, mankind tries to survive in the underground corridors of a bunker. Produced in 1979, the film is a fiction, a result of the filmmaker's interest with the nuclear issue, and his encounters with the scientist Cesar Lattes. In the cast: Norma Begell, Brazil´s Julia Roberts at that time.

Brazil, 1981, 95 min, Director: Roberto Pires, Production: Roberto Pires e Oscar Santana.

20h00

Opening Party (by invitation only)

 16h

Hiroshima A Mother's Prayer

(Hiroshima - Gebet einer Mutter)

A documentary film featuring footage captured immediately after the blast, it calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons and world peace from the viewpoint of a mother in Hiroshima.

Japan, 1990, 30 min, Portuguese; Director: Motoo Ogasawara

16h35

08:15 de 1945

August 6, 1945, at quarter past eight in the morning the USA are dropping the first atomic bomb on the civilian population of the city of Hiroshima. This documentary chronicles the lives of survivors of Hiroshima who are now living in Brazil.came to live in Brazil..

Argentine/Brazil, 2012, 106 min, Portuguese, Director: Roberto Fernandez, Productor: O Movimento Falso Filmes

Los Alamos. Und die Erben der Bombe.

Versteckt in den Bergen von New Mexico wurde während des Zweiten Weltkriegs - unter dem Decknamen Manhattan Project - von Robert J. Oppenheimer die erste Atombombe entwickelt. Die Bomben, die Hiroshima und Nagasaki zerstörten, stammten von hier. Bis heute ist Los Alamos Ort militärischer Geheimhaltung, bis heute haben Atomwaffen und ihre Instandhaltung Stockpile Stewardship genannt Priorität. Das Labor ist außerdem ein Zentrum der Genforschung.

Auf dem Tafelberg von Los Alamos trifft das Geheime auf das Heilige. Das Los Alamos National Laboratory erstreckt sich über 43 Quadratmeilen - Land der Tewa aus den Pueblos San Ildefonso und Santa Clara, die ihre heiligen Stätten nicht mehr betreten können: Die indianischen Gebetsplätze sind entweder abgesperrt oder radioaktiv verseucht.

Deutschland, 2003, 45 min, English, Produktion: Denkmal-Film / Hessischer Rundfunk / arte

18h30

Once upon a Time in the Atomic City

(Es war einmal in der Atomstadt)

In Pocinhos (Paraíba, Brazil), approximately fifty years ago, some unidentified US citizens began to appear frequently, leading a scientific research in anonymity. The small semi-arid city of Paraiba, today, has a high rate of cancer. Brazilian scholars, in the 70's and 80's, made scientific investigations in loco, confirming the presence of Uranium in Pocinho's subsoil.

In this documentary, the inhabitants talk about the situation, as some of them witnessed the Uranium extraction process and its measurement with a scientific equipment. They express their opinions or even take a chance to protest against the silence that still deny, to local population, any information that could eventually clarify the facts and, above all, the relation between Uranium and cancer.

Brazil/Italy, 2011, 13 min, Portuguese, Director: Riccardo Migliore

World Premiere

Maralinga Pieces

Between 1952 and 1963 the British Government performed highly secretive nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga and Emu Field in South Australia and on the Monte Bello Islands off the coast of Western Australia. A total of twelve major nuclear tests were performed, and up to 700 minor 'dirty' trials were also conducted. The area was massively contaminated with radioactive materials and cleanups were attempted in 1967 and 2000. However, examinations after these cleanups found that many of these sites still remain radioactive. Shot on location at Maralinga in 2011, this short film takes the viewer through a cinemagraphic landscape of the places these bombs were exploded, as well as extracts snippets of memories of Aboriginal elders and Australian nuclear veterans, whose lives have been deeply impacted by these tests.

Australia, 2012, 13 min, English, Director: Jessie Boylan

World Premiere

Australian Atomic Confessions

Sacrificial lambs to the slaughter. Eyewitnesses tell the true story of what happend during the 12 British atomic bomb tests in Australia. The film is a chilling expose of nuclear testing and the demaging legacy that continues these day.

Australia, 2005, 49 min, English and Aboriginal Australian, Director: Katherine Aigner

Latin American Premiere

16h

The Nuclear Family

A family sits down to a delicous dinner ... or do they? The "Nuclear" Family is a short commercial spec made for the 2010 Swackhamer video contest. The contest topic is:

Shortly after nuclear weapons were first invented, Albert Einstein stated: "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

USA/Singapore, 2010, 2 min, English, Director: Angela How, Production: Angela How, Morgan Faye

Latin American Premiere

The Red Button (Czerwony Guzik)

The Red Button tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war.

Poland/USA, 2011, 52 min, Russian, English; Director: Ewa Pieta, Miroslaw Grubek, Production: Miroslaw Grubek, Slawomir Grunberg

Jadugoda the black magic

Jadugoda is an area in the state of Bihar populated by Adivasi (tribal peoples of India). It first came into prominence when uranium deposits were discovered in the area, since Jadugoda is India's only underground uranium mine. The film documents the devastating effects of uranium mining by Uranium Corporation of India Limited in Jadugoda. For the last thirty years, the radioactive wastes have been just dumped into the rice fields of the Adivasis.

India, 2009, 9 min, English, Director: Shriprakash

Latin American Premiere

Uranium - is it a country? Tracking the origins of nuclear power

Woher kommt unser Atomstrom?

Dieser Dokumentarfilm begibt sich auf die Spuren der Kernkraft und führt nach Australien. Dort betreibt der Global Player BHP Billiton die Uranmine Olympic Dam. Der Uranabbau ist sehr lukrativ und die Branche boomt. Der Sprecher des australischen Uranverbunds spricht von rosigen Zeiten. Ein indigener Anwohner erzählt wie die Mine Auswirkungen auf sein Lebensumfeld hat. Auf der anderen Erdhalbkugel untersucht ein Wissenschaftler in Frankreich die Radioaktivität von Atomanlagen und Urantransporten und erklärt, welche Schäden Radioaktivität im Körper anrichten kann.

Deutschland/Australien 2008, 53 min, Deutsch/Portugiesische Untertitel

Premiere in Lateinamerika

18h

Sacred Poison

"Sacred Poison" is a 30-minute documentary that brings viewers into the pain and devastation that uranium mining brought into the lives of too many Navajo. It is a moving documentary whose power is in the voices and the people that we meet. It is raw and intimate, and I use what I learned from years of reporting, my journalism, to bring their stories to life. The usually reserved Navajo reveal the pain and struggle of living life where the amount of clean water you have to drink is very limited, where one family lost seven children to uranium contamination, where various forms of cancer seem to live inside so many neighbors.

USA, 2011, 30 min, English, Director: Yvonne Latty

Latin American Premiere

Jabiluka

Jabiluka tells the story of the Mirarr Aboriginal people's opposition to another uranium mine on their country in World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park. It was pivotal in mobilising public opposition to the mine. The mine was halted.

Austrália, 1997, 63 min, English, Director: David Bradbury, Production: Frontline Films

Latin American Premiere

Toxic Neglect

Located on the ancestral lands of the Santhal, Munda and Ho Peoples in Jharkhand, India, Jadugoda is home to almost all of India's Uranium reserves. Moushumi Basu reports on a shocking story that the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) and the Government of India doesn't want you to know about. Toxic Neglect was produced for Women Aloud Videoblogging for Empowerment (WAVE). The short documentary about Jadugoda is a candid story narrated by the villagers themselves before the camera.

India, 2011, 9 min, English; Director: Moushumi Basu

Latin American Premiere

Uranium: a poisoned legacy

A shocking investigation into uranium mining in Africa. We visit three areas affected by the uranium industry; Mounana where activity has now ceased, Arlit, where the mines have been active for 40 years, and Imouraren, a future site. In spite of the horrific damage to local populations at previous sites, another mine is being constructed, in Imouraren. The result of a colossal deal between the governments of France and Niger, this will be their biggest open mine yet. Areva claims that the new mine will not poison the land, but local people are sceptical.

France, 2009, 52 min, French/English, Director: Dominique Hennequin, Production: Nomades TV, Charlotte Hennequin

Brazilian Premiere

16h00

Uranium Mining - Not in Nisa (Urânio em Nisa Não)

Portugal has 100 Year long history of Uranium Mining. Also Uranium of Portugal was used to make the first nuclear bombs. Now Portugal´s last big uranium deposite is situated close to Nisa, a beautiful village in the north of Alentejo. In an act of prevention, citizens demonstrated against any uranium mining development. They decided to prefer a sustainable production of local products like chease and olive oil than jobs in the uranium industry.

Brazil / Germany, 2012, 35 min, Portuguese, Director: Norbert G. Suchanek, Production: Marcia Gomes

Premiere Latin America

The Evil of the Mine

A TV report about Urgeiriça, the last uranium mine in Portugal. It shows the health porblems of the population of Urgeiriça and the whole area of the town Viseu in the neigbourhood. Many people are ill and hundreds died of cancer.

Portugal, 2011, 29 min, Portuguese, Director: Mafalda Gameiro, Production: Radio Television Portugal - RTP

Premiere Latin America

Uranium City: Life After The Mine

Eight thousand people once lived in and around Uranium City, Sask., in the northwest corner of the province. Founded as a tent outpost in the early 1950s when uranium was discovered nearby, it grew into a thriving community with dozens of mining ventures as well as hotels, apartment blocks, a movie theatre, a hospital and CANDU High School. In the mid-1960s, however, the United States government stopped purchasing Canadian

uranium, and the bottom began to fall out of both the market and the city. When the last mine closed in 1982, the exodus began.

Canada, 2008, 7 min, English, Director: Daniel Hayduk

Latin America Premiere

Auf Augenhöhe

In dem Kurzfilm "Auf Augenhöhe" berichten indigene AktivistInnen aus dem Niger, Namibia und den USA über ihr Leben mit den tödlichen Hinterlassenschaften von Uran – desjenigen Rohstoffs, der zur vermeintlich sauberen Stromgewinnung in Atomkraftwerken genutzt wird. Ihre Botschaft: „Lasst das Uran in der Erde".

Deutschland, 2010, 11 min, Deutsch/Portugiesische Untertitel,  Produktion: Strahlendes Klima

Premiere in Lateinamerika

 18h00

Buried in Earthskin

Inspired by a dream of nuclear waste as a malignant tumour in the earths skin a woman journalist sets off on a road trip. She follows the route taken by the trucks carrying nuclear waste from the nuclear power plant in Cape Town to their destination in the pristine semi-desert region of Namaqualand. There she meets men and women of the Nama-Khoi tribe, who live in the area, and listens to their untold stories. Over 8 years, her investigation leads her to the homes of other communities living and working in close proximity to nuclear facilities - from nuclear fuel manufacturing plants to nuclear waste dumps and future nuclear power plant sites. Buried in Earthskin subtly demonstrates how energy and political power go hand in hand, and gives a voice to marginalized indigenous peoples who have paid the ultimate price for decisions made (about where we get our electric power) for the sake of political and financial power.

South-Africa, 2009, 50 min, English & Africaans, Director Helena Kingwill

Latin American Premiere

16h00

Amarelinha

One of the first victims of the radioactive accidente of Goiânia with Cesium-137 September 1987 was a 6 year old child. Leide das Neves had no time to play.

Brazil, 2002, 4 min, Portuguese, Director: Angelo Lima

Not for Public Release: a Nuclear Incident in Lock Haven

For much of the twentieth century the United States Department of Defense was a major producer of radioactive waste. The Pentagon not only produced its own nuclear waste. For years, the Pentagon depended on an unknown number of private defense contractors to supply countless radioactive parts and equipment. In the mid-twentieth century, the U.S. government actually gave some of these defense contractors permission to dump radioactive waste on their private properties. The Pentagon seldom, if ever, disclosed the whereabouts of these dangerous nuclear dumps. The problem becomes one for the ages: many of these radioactive isotopes remain dangerous and "hot" for thousands of years, even as the radiation is invisible to unsuspecting victims. This carelessness caught up with college students in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. One day the students woke up to find environmental officials dressed in protective "moonsuits" searching their apartment building for tell-tale signs of radioactive waste.

USA, 2010, 73 min, English, Director: Bill Keisling

Latin American Premiere

 18h00

Gefährliches Trinkwasser

10000 bis 13000 Tonnen Uran sollen in den letzten 60 Jahren auf Deutschlands Äckern gelandet sein. Dieses Urans ist natürlicher Bestandteil des Phosphates, der u.a. in Marokko abgebaut wird und zur Herstellung mineralischer Düngemittel für die industrielle Landwirtschaft benötigt wird. Aus eben solchem Uran aus Phosphat soll z.B. Israel seine Atomwaffen herstellen.

Deutschland, 2010, 44 min, Deutsch, Regie: Dethlev Cordts Production: Dethlev Cordts for NDR German TV

Premiere in Lateinamerika

18h00

The Third Nuclear Bomb, The Veteran´s Accusation

(La Terza Bomba Nucleare, Le Accuse del Veterano)

Consulting the "Seismological International Center on line data archive" we found that in the area indicated by the veteran, a seismic event with a power of 5 kilotons was registered the last day of the conflict. This hint requires a lot of verifications and at RAINEWS24 we want to carry them out involving journalists from other countries, seismological centers that have registered the event, to whom we ask more data about seismic waves and last but not least international organizations that have the task to monitor nuclear activities.

Italy, 2008, 26 min, English, Director: Maurizio Torrealta, Production: Rainews24 / Radio Televisione Italiana

Latin American Premiere

Blowin'in the Wind

Blowin in the Wind is about the US military use of depleted uranium weapons since the first Gulf War. It is an expose of what the arms' manufacturers are doing with the radioactive waste of the nuclear power industry. They are making bullets, bombs and bunker busters from it...and firing it around the globe. Blowin' was shown theatrically around Australia and created a minor controversy. It premiered at the Sydney and Brisbane International Film Festivals. It helped secure for Bradbury the coveted Charles Chauvel award for his contribution to the Australian film industry and the Stanley Hawes award (2008).

Australia, 2005, 62 min, English, Director: David Bradbury, Production: Frontline Film Foundation

Latin American Premiere

Quirra is a radioactive dump

(QUIRRA è una discarica radioattiva)

For years those people from Sardinia that live near the Quirra shooting range want to know the truth about about several tumours and malformations that have hit the inhabitants and the animals populating that area. Rainews report tells the truth about the first burning truths coming out from Lanusei's prosecutor's office. Those documents clearly talk about the illicit presence and detention of weapons containing depleted uranium.

Italy, 2011, 21 min, English, Director: Flaviano Masella, Producer: Rainews24

Latin America Premiere

20h00

Gespräch mit den Regisseuren aus Italien

Nuclear Animation Films

16h

Birdboy

A terrible industrial accident changes DINKI's life forever. Now DINKI's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend BIRDBOY, a misfit who hides in the Dead Forest, lost in his fantasies..

Spain, 2010, 12 min, Animation, Director: Pedro Rivero & Alberto Vázquez, Producer: Abrakam Estudio

Space Dust

An intimate immensity.

Brasil, 2011, 2 min, Animation, Director: Sávio Leite, Production: Leite Filmes

Burial at Los Alamos

An experimental "Western" environmental expose on the burial of 17,500,000 cubic feet of radioactive and other toxic waste disposed of during the Cold War by Los Alamos National Labs, in unlined pits in the Earth. This radioactive waste has contaminated groundwater, and deep aquifer water, affecting indigenous communities and surrounding land.

USA, 2006, 6 min, English, Animation, Director: Eve-Andree Laramee

Latin America Premiere

 Sacred Ground

In the southwestern United States lies Three Rivers, an ancient Native American rock art site where over 10,000 petroglyphs (pecked and incised images) were created by the Jornada Mogollon people between 900 and 1400 A.D. Thirty-five miles away, on the White Sands Missile Range, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated at the Trinity Site in 1945. The juxtaposition of these sites points to the striking contrast between the two worlds which created them: one which reveres and lives in harmony with the natural world, and one which, in striving to control the forces of nature, has created a means for its destruction. This animated film explores these opposing forces and their relationship and effect on one another.

USA, 1997, 9 min. Animation, Director: Karen Aqua

Liebe Sonne

A firefly falls in love with the most shiny thing he knows, the sun.

Fireflies are so romantic, aren't they? And if it is the last thing they do...

Deutschland, 2011, 5 min, Animation, ohne Dialog

Produktion: Franka Sachse, Uli Seis, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Premiere in Lateinamerika

Uranium Decay

The 4.47 Billion year uranium decay cycle is superimposed on footage from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdown, IAEA news footage, and landscape footage in this experimental environmental expose.

USA, 2011, 6 min 30, English, Animation, Director: Eve-Andree Laramee

World Premiere

After the Day After

After the Day After remakes a section of the 1983 post-nuclear made-for-TV-movie "The Day After", retelling the story of atomic devastation in a Dada collage-meets-stop-animation style.

USA, 2011, 6 min, Animation, English, Director: Nathan Meltz

Latin American Premiere

Leonids Story

Eine sowjetische Familie auf der Suche nach einem bescheidenen Paradies findet sich in einer unfassbaren Katastrophe wieder. Dieser magische Animationsfilm verbindet Zeichnung, Fotografie und Videodokumentation, um so die surrealen Emotionen der allzu wahren Tragödie zu erfassen: Tschernobyl 1986.

Deutschland/ Ukraine, 2011, 19 min, Rusisch/Englische Untertitel, Animation

Regie: Rainer Ludwigs, Produktion: Tetyana Chernyavska

Podiumsdiskussion mit den Regisseuren

 Session about Chernobyl

19h00

Verstrahlt und vergessen - Tschernobyl und die Folgen

Filmemacher Christoph Boekel erzählt in seinem Dokumentarfilm von den persönlichen Schicksalen der Menschen, die er bei seiner Arbeit in Russland kennen gelernt hat und die unmittelbar von der Reaktorkatastrophe in Tschernobyl betroffen waren.

Dokumentation, 59 Min.

Deutschland 2006, ARTE - WDR

Regie: Christoph Boekel

Premiere in Brasilien

 To Whom It May Concern

"To Whom It May Concern" is a record of broken people's lives in Belarus five years after the Chernobyl power plant explosion. It shows the plight of children and their parents who have been eating low level radiation food. It is an attempt to warn the rest of humanity to the danger of being exposed not only to radiation but to the undisclosed truth. The film was produced 5 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion happened. Becoming sick as a result of exposure to the low dose radation for 5 years, and fearing for the health of her then 7 year old son, director/ producer Galina Sanderson decided to attract international attention to the situation in Belarus. The State run media was not allowed (and still is not) to reveal any factual health related information or sócio-psychological effects of the accident, and the director/producer had to quit her position in Belorussian State TV in order to make this film.

Belarus, 1990, 26 min, English, Director: Galina Laskova-Sanderson

Latin American Premiere

Fikapaus (Kaffeepause)

During a coffee break two men, wearing protective suits, are having a conversation about Chernobyl, Harrisburg, Forsmark and nuclear meltdowns.

Back at work their lack of empathy makes them true professionals.

And someone else becomes a victim. Coffee Break is a comedy-thriller.

Sweden, 2011, 14 min 30, Swedish/English Subtitle, Director: Marko Kattilakoski

Latin American Premiere

19h50

Radioaktive Wölfe

Director: Klaus Feichtenberger"Radioaktive Wölfe" erzählt die Geschichte von Wölfen im Gebiet von Tschernobyl 25 Jahre nach dem Super-GAU. Die 3.000 Quadratkilometer rund um Tschernobyl sind immer noch verbotene Zone - allerdings nur für Menschen. Am Schauplatz des größten Reaktorunfalls ist in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten ein unbeabsichtigtes ökologisches Experiment abgelaufen. Riesige Rudel von Wölfen haben die Region erobert. Was einst die Kornkammer der Sowjetunion war, ist nun von riesigen Wäldern bedeckt, mit der neuen Vegetation sind Bisons, Luchse und Wölfe zurückgekehrt. Für dieses "Universum" konnte erstmals ein westliches Filmteam in die verbotene Zone vordringen und dieser spektakulären Wiederkehr der Natur nachspüren.

Österreich, 2011, 52 min, Deutsch/Englische Untertitel, Produktion ORF, NDR, WNET & Epo-Film

Premiere in Lateinamerika

16h

Indian Point – Nowhere to Run

Shows the impossibility of evacuation at Indian Point nuclear power

plant outside NY City. Produced after the 9/11 terror attack on New York City and the terrorists announced they had targeted the Indian Point Nuclear Power station but decided to fly by it to the Twin Towers instead.

EUA, 2003, 29 min, English, Director: Tobe Carey

Latin American Premiere

Das Achte Gebot

Die Presse - natur 11/91: "Nicht um den technischen Aspekt des Für und Wider geht es, nicht um Graphitreaktoren oder schnelle Brüter, nicht um die Auswirkungen der Strahlung. Es geht im ganzen Film nur um eines: um Umgangsformen. Der Film kreist um die Methoden der Atom-Herren, demonstriert das Vokabular der Betreiber, die Sprach-Werkzeuge der Kraftwerksdirektoren, die Worthülsen der Öffentlichkeits-referenten und die Lügen der Politker. Der Film belegt mit Dokumenten, dass Millionen Menschen in allen Atom-Staaten über fünf Jahrzehnte den immer gleichen Täuschungsmanövern unterzogen wurden und werden."

Deutschland, 1986, 95 min, Deutsch, Regie: Bertram Verhaag und Claus Strigel, Produktion: Denkmal-Film GmbH

Premiere in Lateinamerika

18h30

Rokkasho Rhapsody

The film sets in Rokkashomura in the northern part of Japan, where they have built a nuclear reprocessing fuel plant in 2004. This fuel reprocessing plant is for recycling nuclear power by removing plutonium from used nuclear power fuel. This film shows the various lives of the people that live in Rokkashomura and how they are living with the new nuclear reprocessing plant. A lady in the village pursues her activism in order to stop the reprocessing plant. She grows tulips to help raise awareness of what Rokkashomura still has to offer. She even held a farmers market and told each customer "these maybe the last organic plants you can buy without any radiation". This fuel reprocessing plant has divided Rokkashomura into people for and against the building and usage of the plant.

Japan, 2006, 102 min, English, Director: Hitomi Kamanaka

Latin American Premiere

16h00

Caesium 137 - The Death Shine

That Brazilian short film shows the events of a real live tragedy about the release of radioactive Caesium-137 into a populated area in 1987 in the city of Goiânia, Brazil. It was the worst radioactive accident in Latin America, which cost the lives of many people and the health of hundreds or possibly thousands of survivors. 15 years of pain, fear, panic and doubt. Discrimination, segregation and death of victims of one of the world's largest radiological accident, with irreversible damage to people and environment. The screenplay is based on testimonies of the victims.

Caesium 137 - The Death Shine (Césio 137 – O Brilho da Morte), Brazil, 2003, 24 min. Director Luiz Eduardo Jorge, Producer Laura Pires.

Rotten Rock

It is the first Documentary made about the Brazil's nuclear power plants, Angra 1 and Angra 2 in the Atlantic Rainforest region in the South of Rio de Janeiro. With ironic humor, it shows that the official safety and evacuation plans to protect the local population and tourists in case of a nuclear meltdown are just a joke. Worse: Angra 1 and 2 are constructed on a beach, which the indigenous population (Guarani-Mbyá) called once Itaorna: Rotten Rock.

Rotten Rock, (Pedra Podre), Brazil, 1990, 26 min, Directors: Eve Lise Silva, Ligia Girão, Stela Grisotti, Walter Behr.

The Speech of the Chief

Most people think that in Brazil there are indigenous peoples only in the Amazon. But in fact there are indigenous people like the Guarani Mbyá of Rio de Janeiro all over Brazil. This film presents the strong 94 year old chief of the Guarani Mbyá people south of Rio de Janeiro and his strong prophetic speech about nuclear energy, ecology and future. His people survived 500 years of occupation and genocide by the "white" conquerors. Now in the rest of their traditional territory they have to live with two Atomic Power Stations and Number 3 is in construction. "The Speech of the Chief" was selected for 5 international Film festivals.

The Speech of the Chief ( A Fala do Cacique), Brasil, 2008/11, 20 min, Directors: Norbert G. Suchanek & Marcia Gomes de Oliveira.

18h00

Stop Castor

Protests against Nuclear Waste Transports in Germany: Nowhere on earth has the nuclear industry found a safe way to keep waste that will remain dangerous for at least a million years. In Germany politicians decided 30 years ago that a salt deposit near the village of Gorleben in the north of the country should be the permanent repository, and a prefabricated storage hall next door to it the "interim storage". Scientists almost from the outset ruled the salt dome unsafe.

The 800 people living near Gorleben and several thousand others living in a cluster of villages and small towns in the picturesque farming and forestry area have fought the nuclear plans and the transportation of waste to the storage from the beginning. The recycled waste from German power stations comes from a plutonium plant in northern France in so-called Castor caskets.

Stop Castor (Der zehnte Castor-Transport nach Gorleben), Germany, 2007, 43 min, Director: Sylvain Darou

18h00

Yelllowcake

From Exploration to fuel production, this documentary relates the contamination, water consumption, waste generation, costs to the American taxpayer through government subsidies, health impacts,and the CO2 emissions that are caused by the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Each phase has its own devastating impact on the environment and the surrounding population, from socioeconomic to health and safety. This film takes a deeper look into the facts that are, all too often, left unsaid. America is going "Down the Yellowcake Road," but given this information, shouldn't we ask the necessary question: Is this what we really want? This short documentary was created by Boxcar Films in 2009 to explore the frontend of the nuclear fuel production cycle. The short was funded by Colorado Citizens Against Toxic Waste.

Yellowcake, USA, 2009,10 min, Director: Brock Williams.

The Return of Navajo Boy

The Return of Navajo Boy, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival and PBS, is an internationally acclaimed documentary that reunited a Navajo family and triggered a federal investigation into uranium contamination. It tells the story of Elsie Mae Begay, whose history in pictures reveals an incredible and ongoing struggle for environmental justice. When an old 1950s film called Navaho Boy is brought back to the same native people who participated in it as children their family memories unfold in surprising directions. The documentary emboldens a Navajo family to share remarkable memories involving Hollywood picture making, uranium mining and the mystery of a long lost boy who was taken away by white missionaries. His name was John Wayne Cly.

The Return of Navajo Boy, USA, 2000, Epilogue 2008, 57 min. Director Jeff Spitz, co-produced by Jeff Spitz and Bennie Klain. Contact: www.navajoboy.com

19h30

Meeting & Diskussion

Meeting und Diskussion mit eingeladenen Gesprächsteilnehmern

16h00

One Day

This documentary is about the nuclear issue in Brazil and about the nuclear accident of Fukushima in Japan. Fukushima opened the discussion about the security of Brazils nuclear power plants. Anti-Nuclear activists demonstrates in the Japanese quarter Liberdade in São Paulo.

Brazil, 2011, 16 min, Portuguese/English Subtitles, Director: Alex Miranda, Production: Trator Filmes

Brazilian Premiere

Food and Radiation

The Film addresses the isue of radiation in food after the March 11, 2011, Fukushima desaster. The film features interviews with foof producers, restaurant owners and new parents about the food consumption has changed after the nuclear accident and the contamination of the food chain with radioactive elements.

USA, 2012, 18 min, Japanese/English, Director: Yoko Kumano

World Premiere

Dirt Cheap 30 years on: the story of uranium mining in Kakadu

Uranium mining was imposed on the Traditional Owners of Kakadu, Australia in the late 1970s and the controversial Ranger mine commenced production in 1981.

Three decades later Kakadu uranium is still shipped out of Darwin to fuel nuclear reactors in Japan, Europe and elsewhere.

The film includes rare footage of Mirarr Senior Traditional Owner Toby Gangale stating clear opposition to mining on his country and documents his prescient concerns about uranium. It shows how the Federal Government overrode the human rights of Kakadu's Traditional Owners in order to impose a toxic industry in a World Heritage Area.

The film provides a unique insight into a story that continues to generate heartache and headlines today.

Australia, 1980-2011, 51 min, English/Gunwinku, Subtitle English, Director Ned Lander.

18h

Radioactivists: Protest in Japan since Fukushima

Fukushima anti-nuclear demonstrations during May and June 2011. We have filmed at demonstrations and talked with the activists who organized them. We also talked with intellectuals, social and political scientists, about the magnitude of the current protests. During these months, we met a lot of inspiring people and got heaps of interesting footage of this new-forming movement, which seems to combine so many groups and organizations and may cause a major shift within Japanese politics and society. With RADIOACTIVISTS, we captured the spirit of this momentum, showing the challenges and triumphs of a movement of great historical significance.

Germany/Japan, 2011, 72 min, Japanese/English, Spanish Subtitles, Director: Julia Leser, Clarissa Seidel

Latin American Premiere

19h

Award Ceremony