The Haines Arts Council will show two films this month at the Chilkat Center.

“The Great Alone,” a documentary about Iditarod champion Lance Mackey, will be shown in the center lobby at 7 p.m. on March 9.

The feature-length film won a dozen awards at film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. It traces Mackie’s triumphant comeback from cancer and his 2013 run in the legendary sled dog race between Anchorage and Nome.

Mackie is the only musher to win four Iditarod championships in a row. He is also a four-time winner of the Yukon Quest sled dog race and the first musher in history to win the Quest and the Iditarod in the same year.

“The film is the story of his remarkable personality, his passion for racing and for his dogs, and the story of him beating cancer,” said council co-president Matt Whitman. “We looked at getting the film last year but it works out well to have it shown while the Iditarod is going.”

(The sled dog race starts Monday, March 6. It begins in Fairbanks due to low snow accumulation in the southern portions of the 1,049-mile trail.)

“Wrestling Jerusalem” will be shown 7 p.m. Saturday, March 25 in the Chilkat Center auditorium. The production is a film rendering of a one-man play written and performed by Aaron Davidman, a seasonal Haines resident who is an actor, director and playwright in Berkeley, Calif.

Davidman portrays 17 different individuals in the film, including male and female Israelis, Palestinians and American Jews. The film is set in three locations – an expanse of desert, a dressing room and a live theater audience – and moves between them.

“The result is a unique hybrid of stage and cinema that reignites hope for the future of this troubled region,” according to the film’s website.

Stephanie Rapp, a reviewer for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival wrote: “As you let the film unfold, you will recognize the humanity in each character and leave the theater much richer for the experience. Complicated? Definitely. Captivating and unforgettable? Without a doubt.”

Davidman performed the 80-minute play off Broadway in March 2016. A New York Times drama critic hailed the play as “smartly-written” but faulted its pace. A Washington Post review said of the play that “the actor’s physically dextrous conjuring of his gallery of Middle East characters gives the show an engaging dynamism all its own.”

The production is based on Davidman’s travels in Israel and the West Bank. Davidman won a prestigious Tikkun Olam Award for the work in 2016, putting him in the company of movie maker Oliver Stone.

Davidman will be on hand for the showing and to offer commentary. Author Heather Lende will emcee a question-and-answer session to follow.