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29/05/2013: Six Yellow Oscars go to six Countries
Uranium Film Festival ends with Samba of Rio de Janeiro's famous Favela Mangueira, where Rio´s Samba was born

In typical Brazilian style with Samba and Caipirinha Magnifica ended the 3rd International Uranium Film Festival of Rio Janeiro 2013 in the cinema of the Modern Art Museum (MAM). A band of Rio de Janeiro's famous Favela Mangueira, where Rio´s popular Samba was born, played for the selected audience with the presence of Atomic Bomb Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the festival winners. In total six Films from six countries - Russia, India, USA, Estonia, Jordan and Germany - were honored with the Uranium Film Festival's trophy, the Yellow Oscar. Between May 16th and May 26 the festival screened 52 documentaries and fiction movies from 19 countries.

27/05/2013: Yellow Oscar Award to Atomic Ivan

Atomic Ivan is the best fiction film of the Third International Uranium Film Festival 2013. Yesterday, Sunday 26th, the 2012 produced film Atomic Ivan by VASILY BARKHATOV from Russia won the Yellow Oscar in Rio de Janeiro.

"Atomic Ivan is a combination of Visual Art, Comedy, Love Story and pure Nuclear Science", says Festival Director Norbert G. Suchanek. "Atomic love at a Russian power plant. Atomic Ivan is a beautiful, intelligent, romantic comedy, in the surrealistic stile that remembers on Federico Fellini."...

12/05/2013: Highlights of the Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro 2013

The Film Festival is the first one to include documentaries, fiction, animation, short and feature films on the nuclear issue. You will learn more about the entire nuclear energy chain: from uranium mining to nuclear power plants and radioactive waste, the first atomic bombs, depleted uranium weapons, stories from Hiroshima, Chernobyl, Fukushima.

Major highlights of this year's edition at MAM Rio are films from Russia, Israel, India, Japan, USA and Germany. And, last but not least the first Brazilian film about uranium mining in Bahia...