This festival at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock focuses on films about nuclear power, the nuclear industry, uranium mining, and nuclear weapons, and their impacts, particularly on Indigenous peoples. The festival particularly aims to encourage Indigenous filmmakers and producers to explore these topics.
The Window Rock International Uranium Film Festival is a project by the 2010 founded International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) that was voted one of the “25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024” by MovieMaker Magazine in Hollywood. In 2025, the IUFF founders Márcia Gomes de Oliveira from Brazil and Norbert Suchanek accepted the Nuclear-Free Future Award (Education).
Klee Benally Earth Protector Award for Best Indigenous Filmmaker.
With the Klee Benally Earth Protector Award we remember and honor Diné (Navajo) musician, traditional dancer, artist, filmmaker and Indigenous anarchist Klee Benally, who died at the age of 48, on December 30, 2023, in Arizona.
Klee is originally from Black Mesa and has worked nearly all of his life at the front lines in struggles to protect Indigenous sacred lands. He particularly advocated against uranium mining and for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation territory. In his last book “No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred“, he writes, “If history is written by the conquerors, it will be unwritten by those who refuse to be conquered.”
The „Klee Benally Earth Protector Award“ comes with a prize money of US $ 1,000 donated by a collective of grassroots individuals.