International Uranium Film Festival 2027
International Uranium Film Festival 2027 is now open for entries!
The International Uranium Film Festival is calling for submissions for 2027 and like every year invites all filmmakers from around the world to participate with their best films about nuclear power and the risks of radioactivity.
Short description
The International Uranium Film Festival is calling for submissions for 2027 and invites all filmmakers from around the world to participate with their best work.
The festival accepts productions exploring the complex themes of nuclear power, radioactivity, and the use of radioactive elements, including 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 was founded in 2010 in Santa Teresa, the famous artist quarter in the heart of io de Janeiro, one year before the Fukushima reactor exploded. 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 70 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 is also known as The Atomic Age Cinema Fest.
The Uranium Film Festival accepts submissions of feature-length and short 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.
The Next festival is scheduled for 16th – 30th May, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Modern Art Museum Cinematheque.
Results will be announced on May 2027.
Eligibility
The International Uranium Film Festival invites all filmmakers from around the world to participate.
Prize
The best films receive the Uranium Film Festival trophy.
The festival’s award is 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.
Entry fees
Entry fee starts from 10 Euro and varies depending on the submission type and the date of submission. Entries submitted before 30 September 2026 are considered early and will cost less. Entries submitted after 31 October 2026 are considered late and cost more.
