New to DocPlay in July

Streaming free on DocPlay from July 6-13 (no subscription required) are eight films that champion indigenous and Torres Strait Islander culture.

They are:

• Connection to Country
• The Dark Emu Story
• Incarceration Nation
• Like My Brother
• Ningla-Ana
• Still We Rise
• Voice
• Winhanganha

And film buffs will cherish premieres about an indie hero and a sequel to The Story of Film.

Reads the blurb for Richard Linklater (July 17):

Slacker. Indie filmmaker. Oscar nominee. Writer, director, producer, actor Richard Linklater is all these things and more, a poster boy for the fiercely independent style of filmmaking that emerged out of Austin, Texas in the late 1980s and 1990s.

In The Story of Film: A New Generation (July 17), a  decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe.

“It’s another example of his unique approach,” said The Guardian.

“Cousins is subjective almost to the point of free-associating or even sleep-talking (maybe appropriate for the dream state of the movies) but also colossally well-informed, bracingly internationalist and genuinely educational.”

Also new:

Johatsu: Into Thin Air (July 3)

In Japan, thousands of people disappear voluntarily every year. And there are companies ready to help those who want to disappear without a trace and start a new life somewhere else. Meet some of them in a film that soberly examines a modern phenomenon.

Architecton (July 14)

Award-winning director Viktor Kossakovsky’s striking new documentary takes audiences on an extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone.

Senses of Cinema (July 17)

The cultural life of late 20th century Australia through the rise, fall and afterlife of the Filmmakers’ Co-operatives.

Mayor (July 24)

A look at the life of Musa Hadid, the charismatic mayor of Palestinian city Ramallah, who aspires to lead the city into the future.

Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (July 28)

A musician from San Francisco finds meaning to his life when he starts to care for dozens of wild parrots. The beloved break-out hit celebrates 20 years since its theatrical release.