The NewFest38 Calendar

Join us for an evening with NewFest’s 2026 Voice & Visibility Award recipient Cynthia Nixon.

Four legacy short films from Aubin Pictures will also be available exclusively to stream

John Michael invites his closest friends to a cabin in the Berkshires to celebrate his marriage. But soon, old flames, new secrets, and a competitive round of Meryl Streep karaoke threaten the group’s dynamic.

Nerdy star student Luthando is on track for a normal academic year at her all-girls boarding school. But when the arrival of a new classmate ignites Luthando’s hidden desires, it threatens everything she thought she knew about herself.

Exclusive interview and performance footage from 1991 capture Chavela Vargas in her own words: a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her extraordinary life into being.

Adapted from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, a wealthy woman preparing for a party and a young soldier haunted by trauma confront the lingering weight of their pasts in Lagos, Nigeria.

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had, in this Cannes sensation from Jordan Firstman.

Two party boys arrive at an upstate New York mansion for an unexpected evening of sexual abandon and supernatural horrors in this ode to the queer underground of the ‘90s.

As the First World War drags on, two soldiers on the front lines find theatrical ways to escape the brutality of war together, even if only for a moment.