"Birth", 12 min, 2009

Written, Directed, Animated by Signe Baumane

Amina is 17 and pregnant. Afraid to give birth she goes to older women for consolation and advise but their stories scare her even more.

Festivals

CinEast Film Festival, “Carte Blanche” for Paul Thiltges (October 23, 2013, Luxembourg)

MOVE Film Festival (October 8-13, 2013, Umeå, Sweden)

Berlinale Shorts (Competition, February 5-15, 2009)

Florida Film Festival (March 27 - April 5, 2009)

16th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (May 5-10, 2009)

2009 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival (March 13-21, 2009)

Short Film Festival Cellu l'art in Jena/Thuringia (April 22-26, 2009, Germany)

Melbourne International Animation Festival 2009 (MIAF), (June 22-28, 2009)

International Competition of the Paris Cinema International Film Festival (July 3-14, 2009)

BeFilm The Underground Film Festival (April 28 - May 2, 2009)

Annecy International Animation Film Festival (June 8-13, 2009)

Huesca International Film Festival, International Short Film Contest (June 4-13, 2009)

London International Animation Festival (August 28 - September 6, 2009)

FEMINA - International Women's Film Festival (June 1-7, 2009, Brazil)

2009 Rooftop Films Summer Series (June 10,, 2009)

58th Melbourne International Film Festival (July 24 - August 9, 2009)

17th Intl. Animation Festival of Brazil ANIMA MUNDI 2009 (Rio de Janeiro, July 10-19, Sao Paulo, July 22-26)

Giffoni Film Festival, Troubled Gaze section (July 12-25, 2009, Italy)

2nd International Animated Film Festival, Animator 2009 (July 6-12, 2009, Poznan, Poland)

11th Seoul International Youth Film Festival (July 9-15, 2009)

13th annual L.A. Shorts Fest (July 23-31, 2009)

SICAF - Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (July 22-26, 2009)

33rd Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt (August 13-17, 2009)

Wiesbaden Animation Festival 2009 (October 15-18, 2009)

International Women's Film Festival in Rehovot (September 7-13, Israel)

International Short and Animation Film Festival OPEN CINEMA (August 7-15, 2009, Russia)

10th Anniversary Women & Girls Fund Film Festival (August 6th, 2009, New London, CT)

Göteborg International Film Festival (January 29 - February 8, 2010)

3rd International Animation Festival ANIMANIMA 09 (2009, Serbia)

Ottawa 2009 International Animation Festival (October 14-18, 2009)

Rehoboth Beach Film Festival (November, 11-15, 2009)

29th Atlantic Film Festival (September 17-26, 2009, Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Eksjö Animation Festival 2009 (September 24-26, 2009)

Woodstock Film Festival (September 30 - October 4, 2009)

Cucalorus Film Festival (November 11-15, 2009)

Anim’est – International Animation Film Festival (October 2-11, 2009, Romania)

Hamptons Film Festival (special screening with New York Women in Film and Television, 2009)

International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK (October 26 - November 1, 2009, Leipzig)

FIAE 2009 – 4th International Festival of Erotic Animation (November, 2009, Brazil),

Voxfeminae Festival (September 29 - October 4, 2009, Zagreb)

7th International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis (October 21-25,  2009, Lithuania)

Project Twenty1's 2009 Philadelphia Filmathon (October 1-4, 2009)

Femmina International Film Festival (October 29 - November 1, 2009, Norway)

V Córdoba International Animation Festival – ANIMA’09 (Animated Stories Category, International Competition, October 8, 10, 2009)

International Short-Film Festival La Boca del Lobo (October 21-30, 2009, Spain)

Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival (September 10-13, 2009)

Film Columbia (October 22-25, 2009)

l'Alternativa 2009 – 16th Barcelona Independent Film Festival (November 13-31, 2009)

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (November 5-26, 2009)

ALE KINO 27th International Young Audience Film Festival (September 6-13, 2009, Poland)

London Film Festival (Oct 22nd, 23rd, 15th, 2009)

Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation Festival GIRAF, 2009 (Canada)

Kinofest 2009 (October 22-24, 2009, Bucharest)

NO TABOO – 4th Intl. Festival of Animation and Sex Education (November 10-12, 2009)

Anchorage International Film Festival (December 4-17, 2009)

XII Edition of the International Short Film Festival of Soria City 2009 (November 25, 2009, Spain)

PLATFORMA VIDEO9 International Film Festival (December 3-6, 2009, Athens)

I Castelli Animati – International Animated Film Festival 14th Edition (November 25-29, 2009, Italy)

Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games (February 8-12, 2010)

Animateka International Animation Film Festival (December 7-13, 2009, Slovenia)

Piccolo Festival dell’Animazione (December 14-16, 2009, Italy)

International Film Festival ETIUDA&ANIMA 2009 (November 30 – December 2, 2009, Poland)

Flensburger Kurzfilmtage-Tricky (November 18-21, 2009, Hamburg)

The Filmfestival del Garda Short Movie Competition Program (December 4-8, 2009, Italy)

Athens 5th AnimFest (March 11-14, 2010)

IV International Festival of Actual Animation & Media-art LINOLEUM, 2009 (St. Petersburg, Russia)

ANIMA 2010, the 29th edition of the Brussels Animation Films Festival (February 12-20, 2010)

La Enana Marron Independent Cinema in Madrid (February, 2010)

The Eleventh Edition of “Maremetraggio – International Short Film and Debut Work Festival” (June 25-July 3, 2010, Trieste, Italy)

Future Film Festival (January 26-31, 2010, Italy)

Animex (February 8-12, 2010, UK)

Cortoons Intl. Short Animated Film Festival of Rome  (March 24-28, 2010)

International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne (Panorama, April 14-18, 2010)

Festival du Court Métrage d'animation de Roanne (March 12-14, 2010)

Delray Beach Film Festival (March 22-28, 2010)

AniFest 2010 (May 18-23, 2010, Czech Republic)

Arizona International Film Festival (April 15-25, 2010)

Cartoons on the Bay (April 15-18, 2010, Italy)

The South Side Film Festival (June 15-19, 2010)

Toronto Animated Image Society for consideration to be part of the TAIS Animation Showcase (June 24th, 2010)

Anibar International Animation Festival 2010 (August 27-30, 2010, Kosovo)

Coney Island Film Festival (September 24-26, 2010)