The AFI-Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival will close out its 2009 run with a film chronicling the life of times of D.C.’s own Marion “Mayor for Life” Barry, festival organizers announced today. The world premiere of The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, by filmmakers Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer, is set for Saturday, June 20 at the AFI Silver, and is billed thusly:

Many people remember Marion Barry as the philandering drug-using mayor of the nation’s capital, who was famously caught in a 1990 FBI sting operation. Yet others know him as a folk hero, a civil rights champion and defender of the poor. Barry’s soaring achievements, catastrophic failures and phoenix-like rebirths have made him a symbol of mythic indestructibility. Who is Marion Barry, really? A hero? A scoundrel? Why is he such a polarizing force? And why do people still vote for him?

Barry and the two filmmakers are also promised to be in attendance for the screening, so presumably the Ward 8 Council member has already had a chance to screen the film and approves—he’s by no stretch a man who suffers anyone questioning his integrity.

SILVERDOCS also announced its opening night film today, Kristopher Belman’s More Than a Game, which looks to be a sort of Hoop Dreams redux. SILVERDOCS runs June 15-20.