Motherbaby International Film Festival

So there's a traveling film festival, which features many short films (7-30 minutes) and several feature-length, including Orgasmic Birth. You can read a list of descriptions here. (I had trouble with the site being slow, so give it another chance if it doesn't come right up.)

I'd love to see a few of them, like "Luna:" This luscious birth video is narrative free. It is set to an amazing and beautiful blues rendition of “Silent Night.” In playful hours before the birth, the camera chases Luna’s toddling sister, Sol, through the house and into the bathtub. When Luna arrives, amniotic fluid and bag still intact, we feel refreshed, invigorated, playful and so glad that all of this was ‘captured’ on film.

Or "A Cow Trough???:" A cow trough is turned into a sumptuous birthing spa with the creative genius of a mother and her toddler. Set to music and humorously edited by Matt and Frank Ferrel, you will never look at a cow trough in the same way again.


I first learned of the MBIFF because it is going on the same weekend as the MANA Midwives Alliance conference.

~s~