TODAY AT THE AFI

TRIBUTE TO PRODUCER MARIAN REES(U.S.; 7 p.m.). The presentation of the Charles W. Fries Producer of the Year award to Rees, followed by clips from her TV films and a screening of “Love Is Never Silent� (1985; director Joseph Sargent): “A near-flawless execution of a wise, tender and acutely soulful story about a hearing daughter and her deaf parents in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a live wire, a bull’s-eye . . . A lovely, achingly real, intense and sometimes angry small film that blows away musty definitions and explodes stereotypes.� (Howard Rosenberg)