Timelife (2019)

How to let life make its way out of the maternal womb? How to build a family when you had to leave the motherland? How to keep hope alive when even birds are hiding from bombings? Timelife is a lifeline, an umbilical cord linking each of us, no matter the color of the skin, the mother tongue or the land of birth. French Congolese dubbing actress Maik Darahs masked voice brings faces of all origins to life from Whoopi Goldberg to Madonna. Syrian film director Mohamad Malas and Jordan writer Adnan Madanat both studied filmmaking at VGIK (Moscow) and both live in countries eaten away by civil wars. The director of the film Hamid Benamra had to leave Algeria to get a filmmaking diploma that did not exist - but yet required in his native country. The black years pushed him away for good. But other migrants will not reach the shore, Central-African dancer Brice Poma-Packotto dances the aground dreams of a whole continent. 21-year-old horsewoman renounces carrying life but hopes she inseminates horses and sets up her own breeding farm. In the meantime, mixed-race 7-year-old child struggles with a diaphragm to decide how much light she should let in her camera lens. Timelife "homebirthes" lives, hopes and love.