Two Canadian films are among the winners of the15th International Uranium Film Festival of Rio de Janeiro 2026.
Documentary THE ATOMIC SCREEN by Alain Vzina received the Best Documentary Feature Film Award, and the short fiction movie The Moth by Michelle Derosier and Zoe Gordon received the Native Spirit Award.
The awards ceremony took place on Saturday, May 30, 2026, at the Cinematheque of the renowned Museum of Modern Art (MAM Rio).
THE ATOMIC SCREEN
Canada, 2025, Director Alain Vzina, Producer Alain Vzina and Marc Plana, Documentary, 52 min - If the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed that a single A-bomb could cause widespread devastation, the invention of thermonuclear weapons a few years later made it plausible that humanity would be wiped off the face of the planet. From the early 1950s to the present day, a whole series of films have revealed this anxiety.
THE MOTH
Canada, 2025, Directors and producers: Michelle Derosier, Zoe Gordon, Cast: Sarah McPherson, Fiction, Language: English, Ojibwe, 19:05 min - It's 2039 in Omagakii First Nation. The land has been consumed by lithium mines, and the Nuclear Waste Corporation has buried 100,000 tonnes of Canada's nuclear waste in the ground. Few were prepared for the disaster. An Ogichidaa-Kwe who refused to evacuate survives in isolation, continuing to love and resist as the world sickens around her.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
For 15 years the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) raises awareness about the risks of atomic power and promotes nuclear disarmament with independent films and panels of experts around the globe. In October 2024, Hollywood's MovieMaker Magazine named it one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024". And in 2025, the festival's founders, Mrcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek, received the prestigious "Nuclear-Free Future Award" in New York City in the category education.The Uranium Film Festival especially in Rio focuses very much on the young generation.
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