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The three top awards go to Sweden, USA and Serbia. 

 

„It's always difficult to determine the festival winners. But this year it was especially difficult. Each of the selected films, dealing with the different aspects of nuclear industry and nuclear war, was of good quality or of great importance and moved the audience," said festival executive director Márcia Gomes de Oliveira during the award ceremony in the Cinematheque of the Modern Art Museum (MAM Rio) .

 

The Best 1st Feature Documentary Award goes to Julian Vogel from Sweden for his film „Inter-Continental Bunker Mission - I.C.B.M". He received the Award from the hands of the Honorary Consul General of Sweden in Rio, Jan Lomholdt. „I would like to congratulate Marcia and Norbert and the whole uranium festival team for organizing this important and amazing event", emphasized the Consul.  "It takes many hands and efforts to make such a week and final night to happen. `No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul´, said Ingmar Bergman.The Uraniun festival has may be never been more actual. We are in the middle of an energy transition but also in a security situation that unfortunately is extremely sad, scary and horrible on all levels. Films and documentaries have always been an important part of understanding the stories told through the Lens of a camera. It's one of the most important `weapons´of free world speech. I want personally to thank you for the teachings it has brought me and I am sure all of you."

 

"Inter-Continental Bunker Mission" is a documentary with a sense of humour on fallout shelters, government survival plans and self-made basement bunkers to survive a nuclear apocalypse. „Julian Vogel has put together a brilliant film that is as playful as it is timely. The form and the content of this wonderful film are in harmony with its subject matter and message", said festival judge, filmmaker and film scholar Miguel Silveira. Trailer: