New to DocPlay in August

Scandinavian premieres dominate August’s highlights on DocPlay, including the TV series A Dangerous Boy (August 4).

This exclusive four-part “coming-of-age story unlike any other” details how Icelandic teenage hacker Siggi became Julian Assange’s sidekick in a story of paranoia, intelligence services, abuse, friendship and betrayal.

“The synopsis might lead you to anticipate a classic tale of good versus evil, but this expectation is masterfully subverted early on, leaving us utterly engrossed,” said Nordic Watchlist.

Wim Wenders and Liv Ullmann executive-produced Songs of Earth (August 18), an acclaimed documentary about a Norwegian valley where the filmmaker’s 84-year-old father’s family has lived with nature for generations

A New Kind of Wilderness (August 18), which won Sundance’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, poignantly follows a family living off-grid and learning to face change in the wake of the unexpected.

“This sad and beautiful documentary from Norwegian film-maker Silje Evensmo Jacobsen tells a painful, complicated story, more complicated than even the film itself explicitly reveals,” said The Guardian.

In A Still Small Voice (August 21), an aspiring Manhattan hospital chaplain begins a year-long residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients she must look deep within herself.

“It’s human and messy — and it’s divine,” the New York Times said.

Stories We Tell (August 21) is Sarah Polley’s deeply moving 2013 portrait of a family dealing with a legacy of secrets and lies, and the elusive nature of truth itself.

Lastly, Lynch/Oz (August 7) is said to “re-experience and reinterpret” The Wizard of Oz by way of David Lynch through six distinct perspectives.

“An appropriately unique analysis of one of cinema’s most idiosyncratic artists,” was the Rotten Tomatoes consensus.