DUSHANBE, February 16, 2015, Asia-Plus – A full-length film “Tasfiya” by Tajik filmmaker Sharofat Arabova will be shown at the 5th International Uranium Film Festival that will take place in Rio de Janeiro in May this year.
The films’ scenario is based on a novel by known Tajik poet, novelist and playwright Timur Zulfiqorov.
The symbolic narration tells a story about a young musician called Shams (meaning “Sun” in Tajik) who commits a murder of his beloved woman Mehri (whose name is translated as “Love” in Tajik). He admits his crime and is sent to the uranium mine next to the abandoned radioactive village. Shams is exiled for 10 years…
The International Uranium Film Festival was founded in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, and has traveled to Germany, Portugal, India and the United States. This educational event merges art, ecology, environmentalism and environmental justice, to inform the public about uranium mining and milling, nuclear power issues, nuclear weapons and the nuclear fuel cycle from “cradle to grave” life-cycle assessment — and the effects of radioactivity on humans and other species. The festival founders and principal organizers are Norbert Suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliveira. The legal organizer of the International Uranium Film Festival is the arts and education non-profit “Yellow Archives.” The organizers and the festival participants seek to educate and activate the international public on these issues through the dynamic media of film and video.
The films shown typically have content that critiques and analyzes uranium mining, milling, and use, and the effects there of on land, water and human health. A key objective of the festival is to inform cultures and future generations about the effects of radioactivity and radioactive materials.
