Into Eternity

Tue Jun 19, 2012

20:30

Location

The Shoe Factory
304 Ermou Street
Nicosia, Nicosia

Description

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high level radioactive waste are placed in interim storages which are vulnerable to natural or manmade disasters. In Finland the world's first permanent storage is being constructed — a huge system of underground tunnels hewn out of solid rock. It is essential that it lasts 100.000 years, as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Once the waste has been deposited, the facility will be sealed off, never to be reopened. But can we ensure that? How is it possible to warn our descendants of the waste we left behind? How can we prevent them from thinking they have found the pyramids of our time, mystical burial grounds, hidden treasures? Which languages and signs will they understand, and if they understand, will they respect our instructions? While gigantic monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth now and in the near and very distant future.

Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the future

Into Eternity has won numerous awards, including Best of Festival in Wild & Scenic Film Festival 2012, California, USA; Best International Feature Film in FilmAmbiente - International Environmental Film Festival 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Grand Prix in Baikal International Festival of Documentary 2011, Irkutsk, Russia.

Cast:
Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm
Mikael Jensen
Berit Lundqvist
Michael Madsen

Director: Michael Madsen
Writer: Michael Madsen, Jesper Bergmann
Runtime: 72 min
Genre: Documentary
Language: English, Swedish, Finnish
Subtitles: English
Production Year: 2010

The film will be followed by a reception

The screening is part of the Danish Documentary Week

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