"The Vow from Hiroshima" / "Le voeu de Hiroshima"

All those in the Montréal area are invited to attend the first bilingual screening of "The Vow from Hiroshima" / "Le voeu de Hiroshima," an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.  The film follows Setsuko through her decades of activism up to the current moment when she finally achieves her dream of a Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty.

jeudi 11 juin 2026, 13:30 à 15:30

Campus MIL
Complexe des sciences, 1375, avenue Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux , a3521
Montréal (QC) 

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June 11 at 1 p.m. at Campus Mil (Outremont), University of Montreal, Pavilion A, Room 3521. THE VOW FROM HIROSHIMA with French subtitles.  Award-winning 83-minute documentary, launch for French-speaking or bilingual audiences. Discussions in the state of the art interactive amphitheater (also possibly online or in person with film people, indigenous reps, others)

The life of Toronto activist Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 nuclear explosion, and her journey from Japan to North America (marriage, work) and to the United Nations in New York (to push for the adoption of the ambitious Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - TPNW) and to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons).

The TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) isolates nuclear-armed countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and allies like Canada, Japan, etc., who do not wish to sign it right now (or ever?), even though the vast majority have (Norway, Mexico, Austria, Ireland, Indonesia, South Africa, etc.). These latter countries prefer the older UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which no longer inspires consensus or tangible reductions of arsenals.

Le 11 juin à 13 h au Campus Mil (Outremont), Université de Montréal, Pavillon A, Salle 3521. THE VOW FROM HIROSHIMA avec sous-titres français. Documentaire primé de 83 min’, lancement pour public francophone et-ou bilingue.  Échanges en la salle en personne ou peut-être via le web avec différents cinéastes, reps autochtones, autres.

La vie de l’activiste torontoise SETSUKO Thurlow survivante de l’explosion nucléaire (1945) et son chemin du Japon jusqu’en en Amérique du Nord (mariage, travail) et à L’ONU de New York (pour pousser l’adoption d’un traité ambitieux, Le TIAN et à Oslo pour recevoir Le Prix Nobel de La Paix donné à ICAN (International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons.)

Le TIAN (traité de l’interdiction des armements nucléaires) isolent les pays armés comme les États-Unis, le RU, La France, La Russie, La Chine, L’inde, Le Pakistan, L’Israel, etc. et alliés comme le Canada, Japon, etc. ne désirant non plus le signer pour l’instant - même si la grande majorité l’ont fait (Norvège, Mexique, Autriche, Irlande Indonésie, Afrique du Sud, etc..  Ces derniers préfèrent le vieux traité de L’ONU de Non Prolifération D’armements Nucléaires qui n’incite plus beaucoup de consensus et d’actions concrètes de réductions de tels équipements.

Setsuko Thurlow is a Japanese–Canadian nuclear disarmament campaigner and Hibakusha who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. She is mostly known throughout the world for being a leading figure of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN) and to have given the acceptance speech for its reception of the 2017 Nobel peace prize.