AIFF2018: Music, Dying, Gardens, Afghan Interpreters and Women Cyclists

Everything except Five Seasons is at the Alaska Experience Theater.  Five Seasons is at the Museum.

Wednesday, December 5

3:00pm

Exit Music 

"Exit Music is a documentary film that travels the intimate and complex path of terminal illness. Ethan Rice was born with Cystic Fibrosis, an incurable genetic illness that eventually leads to respiratory failure. At their home in a small upstate New York community, Ethan and his family live in constant uncertainty as the disease takes more and more away from them. While medical interventions continue to keep him alive well beyond his prognosis, 28-year-old Ethan questions day-by-day how long he is willing to fight and what his absence will mean to those he leaves behind."

5:30 is a hard choice between two promising documentaries.

5:30pm

Five Seasons - The Gardens of Piet Oudolf with Pre Screening Mixer at Muse 

The Interpreters 

8:00pm

Afghan Cycles 

 From the website:

"More than 50,000 local interpreters helped protect U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, enabling soldiers to communicate with the local population. But those who took the job were often considered traitors.
Phillip Morris, whose chain-smoking earned him the nickname, is a central character in the film. His warm, contagious laugh belies the dangerous work he undertook for four years. He served alongside Paul Braun, a lieutenant in the Minnesota National Guard who became his best friend. After coalition forces withdrew in 2011, Phillip and his family came under threat."

From Afghan Cycles website: 

 "Afghan Cycles is a feature documentary about a generation of Afghan women who are pedaling their own revolution, aggressively challenging gender and cultural barriers using the bicycle as a vehicle for freedom, empowerment and social change."