Anti-Nuclear Film Festival, Chennai

Anti-Nuclear Film Festival, Chennai

6 Aug, Annai Maniammayar Hall, Periyar Thidal, Chennai / 11 am to 8 pm

Jointly organised by MARUPAKKAM & Periyar Self Respect Media

Curated by Amudhan R.P.


Schedule :


11 am

Radiation Stories : Part 3 Koodankulam  (Dir: Amudhan R.P.; 80 min; 2012; India)

The people’s movement against Koodankulam nuclear plant is a 30 plus years old story. Post Fukushima saw the movement gaining momentum in and around Koodankulam and Idinthakarai villages thanks to the test run conducted by nuclear authorities of Koodankulam which brought in the inland farmers, workers, small traders and lower middle salaried class to the struggle along with the fishing community. 

2 pm 

Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda (Dir: Sriprakash; 52 min; 1999; India)

Buddha Weeps in Jadugoda" is a documentary film on uranium mining and its deadly impacts on the tribal people living near the Jadugoda mine, mill and tailings dam, in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand (India). 

Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf (Dir: Hope Tucker; 16 min; 2021; USA / Austria)

Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf is a monument to the power of public protest and the potential of a democratic vote.

Stalking Chernobyl (Dir: Iara Lee; 58 min; 2020; Ukraine/Slovakia/USA/Bulgaria)

Stalking Chernobyl, a documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films, will examine the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. Three decades after the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster, wildlife has returned in the absence of human settlements. Meanwhile, illegal hiking adventurers known as “stalkers,” extreme sports aficionados, artists, and tour companies have begun to explore anew the ghostly, post-apocalyptic landscape.

4.30 pm 

War & Peace (Dir : Anand Patwardhan; 135 min; 2002)

Filmed over four tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA following nuclear tests in the Indian sub-continent, War and Peace is a documentary journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war. 


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