The NewFest38 Calendar

Celebrate short films from our 2026 recipients of the Sound & Scene: NewFest + Concord QTBIPOC Short Film Initiative, a program launched in 2024 in partnership with Concord Originals.

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.

Follow three generations of men bound by pain, desire, and love across a century of Spanish history in this epic film from Cannes-winning directors Los Javis.

Five artists present a docu-poem in six verses about artists breathing through chaos.

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

For the ninth year, NewFest is thrilled to collaborate with NYC Public Schools and GLAAD on a spirited shorts program curated for LGBTQ+ teens.

Produced for The Gay and Lesbian Emergency Media Campaign, this documentary chronicles the insurgent “Religious” Right and its broad-based agenda, analyzing its 1992 anti-gay campaigns in Oregon and Colorado.

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.

A class of high school students travels to Pompeii to discover its ghostly ruins. Overcome by a dizzying sensation, they are swept up in desire and anger one by one, until they surrender completely.