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Italy/Portugal 2024, 6 min, Director: Daniele Grosso
On the 24th of June, 1958 the philosopher and anti-nuclear activist Günther Anders was flying to Japan to take part in the Fourth World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs and for Disarmament. He recollected this experience in his book “The Man on the Bridge: Diary from Hiroshima and Nagasaki”.
Best Art Animation Uranium Film Festival 2025
USA 2025, 8 min, Directors: Ari Beser, Regis Hirwa
Ari Beser is the grandson of Jacob Beser, the only man to fly aboard both planes that dropped the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ari reflects on the justification of his grandfather’s mission as he begins to write his latest piece for the Japanese Asahi Shimbun (A New York Times affiliate). What does he really think about the mission many say ended the war?
Ari Beser is the Founder and lead Filmmaker of Goss Grove Films – A global first storytelling incubator focusing on next generation filmmakers. He has spent over 10 years working with atomic bomb survivors to inherit and convey their testimonies.
USA 2022, 20 min, Directors: Michael Dwyer, Chuck Gomez, Producer: Michael Dwyer
Tomiko Morimoto West watched from her schoolyard as a low-flying B-29 dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing her mother and other family members. Thirteen-year-old Tomiko searched the devastated city for the body of her grandfather to save him the injustice of a mass burial, cremating him under mountain tree branches. She went on to marry an American GI, become a professor at Vassar College, and at age 90 has only one wish: that world leaders work together for global peace.
Best Documentary Short Uranium Film Festival 2025
Japan/USA 1995/2025, 30 min, Directors & Producers: Chris Beaver & Judy Irving, Digital Restoration: Gary Coates
Produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers, “Nagasaki Journey” is a powerful, yet hopeful look at the immediate and continuing aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped August 9, 1945 on Nagasaki, Japan. The film tells the moving personal stories of two Japanese survivors and a U.S. Marine, who was one of the first American troops to occupy the city after the war ended. They reveal how the impact of this single bomb forever transformed their lives and their thinking. Despite the enormous wartime tragedy, their common humanity transcended previous hatreds, providing hope the Nagasaki bomb would be the last atomic weapon in warfare.
Memory Award Uranium Film Festival 2025
Germany 1986, 29 min, Director: Christoph Boekel, Production: Baum-Film
An essay on the unimaginable. An experimental film. With formal rigor, it depicts people sitting around a green table engaged in an enigmatic task. The result of their work makes the unimaginability of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima comprehensible for a cinematic moment.
Christoph Boekel: “The film is unfortunately very topical again; the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons has been lowered.”
