The NewFest38 Calendar

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

Four legacy short films from Aubin Pictures are available exclusively to stream.

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.

A five-chapter documentary series follows ordinary Clevelanders who have long been shaken by police misconduct, social discrimination, and poverty.

This shorts program proves queer episodics are thriving, with a lineup that includes a coven of drag queen witches, an animated supernatural romp, and a girl-punk rebellion. Something for everyone!

From the Pulse nightclub shooting to today, follow outrageous activist group Gays Against Guns over the course of a decade as they tackle the gun industry head on.

Raised to be a Pentecostal minister, Ron Athey was speaking in tongues by age 10, a heroin addict by 17, and a performance artist by 23. This documentary spends time with Athey on and off stage.

For 45 years, the San Francisco-based Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have wielded humor, shock value, and radical joy as tools of resistance. The Sisters’ annual Easter celebration, Hunky Jesus, is as subversive, controversial, and fun as it sounds.

Two unemployed, directionless trans lesbians connect in a reality-shifting way at the edge of an unnamed city.