21 – 23 November -Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas!

November 21, Friday, 2025
6:00 pm To Use a Mountain

USA, 2025, Director Casey Carter, Producers: Colleen Cassingham, Jonna McKone, Documentary, 99 min.

In 1982, the United States began their search for a landfill site for their most dangerous nuclear waste. The Department for Energy at the time preselected six sites across the country. Each of these areas were studied and documented in detail, and their residents consulted. The film, which adopts an observational yet sensitive tone, offers us a topography of these sites and their residents. In Texas, Utah, Mississippi, Nevada, the communities excavate memories of their confrontations with the administration, as well as the distress and outcry that these caused. The film travels across America goes back in time, reminding us that these lands were originally stolen from their first occupants, as we rediscover the intimate links between nuclear, civil and military powers.

8:00 pm SILENT WAR – IN THE SHADOW OF ATOMIC BOMBS

Part 1: DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE

Part 2: NUCLEAR MIRROR WORLDS

Germany/France, 2025, Directors: Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust, produced by Dirk van den Berg / OutreMer Film with ZDF & ZDF Studios, Documentary, English, 104 minutes

80 years after the atomic bombs and the beginning of the Cold War, the fear of nuclear war is back. Does Europe need more nuclear independence today? Must we re-define nuclear deterrence? Will old and new superpowers force their will upon the rest of the world by “protecting” conventional wars with their nuclear arsenals? And, do we even have the political vocabulary for a new world order that threatens to end the long peace since the end of the last World War – or are we already in a new war?

SILENT WAR debunks the narratives about atomic bombs, nuclear deterrence and the Cold War, in occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack in 2025.SILENT WAR is based on groundbreaking research by nuclear historian Robert “Bo”Jacobs, and his book “Nuclear Bodies”, acclaimed as one of the most important contributions to the history of atomic weapons and the Cold War. https://silentwar.outremerfilm.com/silentwar.html

November 22, Saturday, 2025

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Under the Cloud

USA/Mexico, 2023, Director Pedro Reyes Alvarez, Documentary, 24 min.

The film examines the ongoing legacy of nuclear violence in the American Southwest, where uranium extraction and nuclear testing have left deep scars on both the land and its people. Featuring voices like Leona Morgan, a Diné anti-nuclear activist, the film reminds us that nuclear energy and nuclear weapons are inseparable—a fact that remains dangerously overlooked. Alongside her, other community members speak about the destruction of their environment, the health crises that continue to afflict their people, and their resistance to the mining of sacred landsUnder the Cloud is a short documentary that examines the ongoing legacy of nuclear violence in the American Southwest, where uranium extraction and nuclear testing have left deep scars on both the land and its people.

WAYS OF KNOWING: A NAVAJO NUCLEAR HISTORY

USA, 2025, Director: Kayla Briët, Producer: Adriel Luis, Sunny Dooley, Lovely Umayam, Writer: Lovely Umayam, Documentary, 23 min.

The American Southwest is a sprawling, mysterious landscape that holds a dark legacy as the setting for the production of the first nuclear bomb. But this place holds a deeper and more profound history – for millennia, Navajo and other Indigenous peoples have held this area sacred, and continue to fight for the survival of their land and culture despite decades of environmental and community trauma. Here, storytellers, scholars, artists, and community organizers have dedicated their lives to a future that transcends the shadow of nuclear history. This is their story. www.waysofknowing.us…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………more at https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/iuff-usa-2025-program