First Cousin Once Removed

It sounds unwatchable: Filmmaker Alan Berliner—who will attend this special "Stranger than Fiction" screening—chronicles the slow five-year deterioration of his cousin Edwin Honig as he succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease. But don’t let the tough subject matter dissuade you from catching this devastating ode to the fragility of memory, as well as a tough elegy for a man whose inspiring strengths are inseparable from his off-putting flaws.