“What is Cinema? We might as well ask “What is life?”, for film, like life, is made of moments; moments in time, held aloft for our perusal, imprinted on our soul, and then brought back to us from time to time as a memory — by an event, a vision, a sound, an emotion. The separation becomes trivial — cinema is life, and life cinema: around us, beside us, inside us. The cinema, then, is not to be consumed with haste; films are not to be digested simply as they unfold, like some plastic-wraped fast-food. Created by light and celluloid, they live only in our minds and in our hearts, savoured both during and after the fact. Projected onto the screen and into our consciousness, where they are replayed over and over — continually re-discovered artefacts which are constantly changing us. What, …then, can we say is truly real? A memory? An event? A celluloid image? The answer lies in the cinema. All is real. Nothing is impossible." – Glen Norton

Brief identity card:
Name: Lea Farah
Age: 16
Hometown: Lebanon
Educational Level: 1st year high school
Interests: Mainly cinema and photography

My top 20 movies of all time: (In no particular order)

Abraham Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
Eureka (Shinju Aoyama)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Dern)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Wind of the Night (Philippe Garrel)
Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jiles)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
Through the Olive Tree (Abbas Kiarostami)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
Faces (John Cassavetes)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
The Scarelett Empress (Joseph Von Sternberg)
Nosferatu (F.W Murnau)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)