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Poet, playwright, activist; seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement; mentor to generations of poets and hip-hop artists. Champion for peace: in the classroom, on the street, around the world. Sonia Sanchez plays all these roles. BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez is a performance-filled documentary about this 80-year old artist for whom writing is both a personal and political act.

An unlikely mentor uses basketball to shepherd an intellectually disabled teen and in turn becomes led himself into reconciliation with his estranged father. 'Coach D' Adam Donyes and Big Dave 'Diesel' Sterling, were an unlikely pair that were strangely brought together and significantly affected each others lives in ways that were seemingly impossible - serving as 'bridges' for each other in reconciling with their respective fathers who had abandoned each of them long ago.

In this film by Aleksandr Balagura, Alain Fleischer, with the help of Danielle Shirman, his partner and collaborator, speaks about his art, reads a chapter of his new novel, and reluctantly comments on the Zen "Story of the Ten Oxen", which in the film becomes a Story of Ten Horses and is illustrated by way of Eadweard Muybridge's sequential stills. "WE ARE ALL IMAGES OF THIS FILM" is a paraphrase of Alain Fleischer's answer to my question, "What is an image?". Photographer, filmmaker, writer, and more - "a total artist" -, Alain Fleischer has the rare quality of seeing the world with the freshness, curiosity, and imagination of a child that explores reality by play, who sees, finds, establishes (or perhaps re-finds and re-establishes) the secret links between objects and phenomena, often invisible to the adult eye. It is precisely his constant readiness to get involved in an artistic adventure, combined with the awareness of the method, with a mature and concrete analysis of the material and the means, that allows him to create pure, unpolluted images. Images perceived at their origin, as it were "for the first Jme". The ability and talent to transform reality into art, and, vice versa, to restore to art the quality of reality, is a central feature of his work. WE ARE ALL IMAGES OF THIS FILM is the result of three meetings with Alain Fleischer, which took place in his Italian home on Lake Bracciano, where he introduced me to the various aspects of his art. I tried to find the internal links between the motifs, themes, images of his works, and to combine them in a single flow, a single current, driven by the spiritual need for creation hidden behind Fleischer's ostensible "French rationalism". For this purpose, I used motifs that are very dear to me: the Zen Story of the Ten Oxen (which in the film becomes the Story of the Ten Horses, read and commented on by Alain Fleischer at my request), and sequences based on the stills of Eadweard Muybridge. Aleksandr Balagura

Hamama is nearly a 90 year old female healer and living legend in the Emirates. Blessed with an incredible gift of healing she has to face her fragility and age that threaten to impact her work and her livelihood. Her skills are incredibly valuable to hundreds who continue to visit her each day where she lives in Al Dhaid in Sharjah, seeking her essential cures. Yet, Hamama struggles with the responsibility of providing the care that is so greatly needed, while she confronts her own personal hardships. How does Hamama bear all of these burdens yet still remain one of the most successful and in demand Shaman of her time. A question tested and answered in this captivating visual testimony.

Directors John Landis, John Carpenter, and David Cronenberg engage in a round table discussion on several of their movies and the horror genre in general.