The International Uranium Film Festival invites filmmakers worldwide to submit their best work for the 2027 edition.
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 is competitive. The best films receive the Uranium Film Festival trophy.
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, and radioactivity.
It is not mandatory that the films are new productions; they could have been produced at any time.
Founded in 2010 – just one year before the Fukushima disaster – the festival has grown to host over 70 events in more than 40 cities and seven countries: Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Jordan, Portugal, and the USA. Since its inaugural edition in Hollywood in 2016, the International Uranium Film Festival is also known as The Atomic Age Cinema Fest.
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 next festival is scheduled for 21st – 30th May, 2027, at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.
International Uranium Film Festival 2027 – 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 cost less. Entries submitted after 31 October 2026 are considered late and cost more.