New to DocPlay in November

November is mini-NZ Music Month on DocPlay, with Marlon Williams: Two Worlds – Ngā Ao E Rua and Life in One Chord streaming from November 6.

Marlon Williams: Two Worlds – Ngā Ao E Rua is billed as a “profound, revealing and joyful four-year journey of reconnection and self-discovery behind [the] writing and recording his first album in te reo Māori“.

“This is a brave, essential and joyous film that couldn’t have arrived at a better time,” The Spinoff argued.

Life in One Chord documents the life of punk misfit and Dunedin Sound legend Shayne Carter.

Said The Post: “I’ve watched Life in One Chord twice now, and I honestly can’t think of a way it could have been made much better.”

The universally acclaimed Life After (November 10) examines the complexity of the right-to-die movement.

Variety hailed it as “an engrossing, moving and most importantly confrontational movie about the right to die and disability justice”.

Another Body (November 10) highlights the nightmarish ethics surrounding deepfake technology via a college student who discovered AI-generated pornography of herself online.

Rotten Tomatoes summed it up as “eye-opening and infuriating in equal measure”.

The crowd-funded SAS Bravery & Betrayal (November 13) unfolds through the eyes of the men who served for the SAS in Afghanistan, the politicians who led them, and the widows and children at home.

In the Name of the Father (November 17) goes inside the closed Jewish Hasidic Breslov community in Israel to reveal “shocking stories of violence and sexual abuse” that emerge after the leader’s death.

DocPlay exclusive The Extraordinary Miss Flower (November 20) is described as
an unconventional documentary – “part film, part performance art, part fever dream” – about Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini.

Time Out dubbed it “a delight for the senses that is both deeply intimate and thrillingly cinematic”.

The Coming Back Out Ball Movie (November 27) is named after the gala event to honour and celebrate Melborune’s LGBTQIA+ elders in the midst of Australia’s divisive marriage equality vote.

ScreenHub called the 2018 feature “a classic of queer documentary and should be seen everywhere”.

Pick of the TV series premieres should be Inside the CIA (November 24).