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Film about A-bomb survivors premiers at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - A film that follows more than 100 atomic bomb survivors as they travel around the world on the ''Peace Boat'' premiered at U.N. headquarters on Oct. 26, 2009. Directed by Costa Rica's Erika Bagnarello, the film, ''FLASHES OF HOPE: Hibakusha Traveling the World,'' captured the voices of 103 victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

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Films by young directors shed new light on A-bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Directors Erika Bagnarello (L) from Costa Rica and Takashi Kunimoto from Japan chat in Tokyo on April 12, 2010. Their documentaries on a 2008 global voyage by 103 atomic-bomb survivors organized by the nongovernmental group Peace Boat are being shown around Japan prior to a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May. (Kyodo)

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Film about A-bomb survivors premiers at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - A film that follows more than 100 atomic bomb survivors as they travel around the world on the ''Peace Boat'' premiered at U.N. headquarters on Oct. 26, 2009. Directed by Costa Rica's Erika Bagnarello, the film, ''FLASHES OF HOPE: Hibakusha Traveling the World,'' captured the voices of 103 victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. (Kyodo)