Not many places around the entire world have filmmakers (directors, producers, actors and more) available in its backyard or that will travel to it quite like New York City. With more independent cinemas than anywhere else on top of that, NYC has the best moviegoing experiences in the world. Here's our list of upcoming special event screenings at theaters in New York City from August 1st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Anatomy of a Relationship - Q&A with Directors Luc Moullet & Antonietta Pizzorno
Aug 8 (6pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A woman's feminist awakening drives a couple to a relationship crisis.
Boys Go To Jupiter - Q&A with Director Julian Glander
Aug 8 (7:30pm), Aug 9 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley - Q&A with Director Amy Berg
Aug 8 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley's inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album.
Angelheaded Hipster - Q&A with Director Ethan Silverman
Aug 8 (7:15pm), Aug 9 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Celebrates the life and work of glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan, combined with a behind-the-scenes look at the tribute album of the same name.
Sudan, Remember Us - Q&A with Director Hind Meddeb
Aug 8 (7pm), Aug 9 (7pm), Aug 10 (1pm), Aug 11 (7pm), Aug 13 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Captures a jubilant moment of defiance among young Sudanese activists in Khartoum after the overthrow of a long dictatorship, and then chronicles the military crackdown that followed.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, subject Ellen Jovin
Aug 9 (3pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A grammar guru takes her pop-up grammar advice stand on a rollicking road trip across all 50 states to show that comma fights can bring us closer together in a divided time.
The Comedy of Work - Q&A with Director Luc Moullet
Aug 9 (5:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Françoise, an employment agency employee, is in love with an unemployed man. She does everything she can to find him a job, even though he doesn't want to work.
Zola - Q&A with Director Janicza Bravo
Aug 9 (5:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.
A Girl Is a Gun - Intro with Director Luc Moullet
Aug 9 (8pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Billy the Kid pursues the witness of a heist in order to eliminate him.
Bad Shabbos - Q&A with Writer Zack Weiner
Aug 9 (7:30pm), Aug 10 (7:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
An engaged interfaith couple are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner when an accidental death gets in the way.
Shipwrecked on Route D17 - Q&A with Director Luc Moullet
Aug 10 (3pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
After a race car driver becomes stranded in a village of the French Alps, his partner goes to find help, in this typically quirky comedy from New Wave maverick Moullet.
Boys Go To Jupiter - Q&A with Director Julian Glander
Aug 10 (3:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.
Far From Heaven - Q&A with Director Todd Haynes
Aug 10 (5pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Sudan, Remember Us - Q&A with Director Hind Meddeb
Aug 10 (5:20pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
They are young Sudanese yearning for freedom. Their revolution is poetic, driven by the power of words. The film reassembles fragments of a revolution, a battle pitting the voices of youth against the military's might.
Videoheaven - Q&A with Director Alex Ross Perry
Aug 12 (6pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
VHS's 1980s rise transformed how people watched movies. Using diverse footage and Maya Hawke's narration, Alex Ross Perry examines video stores' crucial role in film culture.
Funny Pages - Q&A with Director Owen Kline, Actors Matthew Maher, Miles Emanuel, & Michael Townsend Wright
Aug 12 (8:15pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
Martha - Q&A with Director RJ Cutler
Aug 13 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
The film covers the breadth of her extraordinary life through intimate interviews with Stewart herself, who opened up her personal archives to share never-before-seen photos, letters, and diary entries.
Severance (clips from the show) - Conversation with Actor John Turturro
Aug 13 (7pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Realm of Satan - Q&A with Director Scott Cummings
Aug 13 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Explores the Church of Satan, a 50-year-old religion celebrating individualism and carnal desires. It offers a glimpse into modern Satanists' daily lives and rituals, showcasing their devotion to Satan as a symbolic figure.
Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in 4 Parts - Q&A with Director Shaun Seneviratne
Aug 14 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
The romantic reunion of Ben Santhanaraj and Suzanne Hopper is thwarted when Suzanne's boss asks her to work during their holiday road trip.
The Glassworker - Q&A with Director Usman Riaz
Aug 14 (7:10pm), Aug 15 (7pm), Aug 16 (7pm), Aug 17 (4:30pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The life of a young glassblower in training and his relationships over the years, as his land goes through war and strife.
A Spartan Dream - Q&A with Writer/Producer George Demas
Aug 15 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)
A travel-adventure story about an atypical Ancient History lover sent to Greece to evict his relatives from an ancestral home. Cracking under pressure, he escapes into fantasy, purposefully (and absurdly) reigniting the Peloponnesian War, all to win the heart of a young village woman.
Checkpoint Zoo - Q&A with Director Josh Zeman
Aug 15 (7pm), Aug 16 (7pm), Aug 17 (2:45pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Checkpoint Zoo documents a daring rescue led by a heroic team of zookeepers and volunteers, who risked their lives to save thousands of animals trapped in a zoo behind enemy lines in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
Rabbit Trap - Q&A with Bryn Chainey
Aug 16 (6:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Married couple Daphne and Darcy Davenport are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality.
The Threesome - Q&A with Director Chad Hartigan, Actress Ruby Cruz
Aug 16 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A young man's perennial crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it's his ultimate fantasy come true. When the fantasy ends, all three are left with sobering real-world consequences, to take responsibility for their actions.
Solvent - Q&A with Director Johannes Grenzfurthner
Aug 16 (8pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels. American expatriate Gunner S. Holbrook becomes obsessed with solving the mystery, and as his sanity wanes, he must confront an insatiable evil. Can he find redemption before it drains the life out of him?
Johatsu - Q&A with Directors Lina Lužyte & Nerijus Milerius
Aug 16 (9pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Following a tragic explosion in a port town outside Vilnius that leaves one sailor dead and another missing, city morgue worker Lina is unsettled by the comportment of the dead man's estranged wife when she comes to identify the body; soon, Lina has launched an informal investigation, hoping to make sense of her own suspicions.
Nashville - Q&A discussion with Ari Aster
Aug 17 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.
Row - Q&A with Writer Nick Skaugen
Aug 17 (6pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
After a failed trans-Atlantic WR attempt, a woman washes ashore on a blood stained rowing boat. With all of her crew mates missing, presumed dead, she must try and piece together fractured memories of the ordeal to prove her innocence.
A Yard of Jackals - Q&A with Director Diego Figueroa
Aug 17 (9pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Follows a modest middle-aged man who's neighborhood's peace is disrupted when a gang of menacing neighbors take over the street.
Blue Sun Palace - Q&A with Director Constance Tsang
Aug 18 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
When tragedy strikes, an unexpected bond forms between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Far from home, their labor-filled lives intertwine as they grieve and search for familial connections.
Say Amen, Somebody - Q&A with Director George Nierenberg
Aug 18 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
Documentary about the American gospel music scene, focusing on two of the movement's pioneering forces, Thomas A. Dorsey and Willie May Ford Smith.
Good Boy - Q&A with Director Ben Leonberg
Aug 19 (6:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.
Night of the Kings - Q&A with Director Phillippe Lacote
Aug 20 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem, Manhattan)
Paying homage to the tradition of the griot in West African culture, this original vision tells the story of a pickpocket, newly arrived at a correctional facility in the Ivorian capital of Abidjan, who, in order to stay alive, must keep his fellow inmates entertained with wild tales over the course of a night.
The Dark and the Wicked - Q&A with Actor Michael Abbott Jr.
Aug 21 (6pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.
Split & Cape Fear - Q&A with Director M. Night Shyamalan
Aug 23 (6pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.
JFK - Q&A discussion with Ari Aster
Aug 23 (6:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Clueless - Q&A with Writer/Director Amy Heckerling
Aug 25 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.
Love, Brooklyn - Q&A with Actor/Producer Andre Holland, Director Rachael Abigail Holder, Actor Roy Wood Jr on Aug 27 only
Aug 27 (7:15pm, 8pm), Aug 28 (7:15pm, 8pm), Aug 29 (7:15pm, 8pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.
Pools - Q&A with Director Sam Hayes and Cast/Crew TBA
Aug 29 (7pm), Aug 30 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In the midst of her whole life falling apart, Kennedy attempts to somehow reconnect with her dead father, searching for permission to live her own life within a wild pool-hopping escape through the elaborate estates of her college town.
The Golem Affairs - Q&A with Burnin' Percebes (Juan González and Fernando Martínez)
Aug 29 (7:15pm), Aug 30 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
After a night of partying, David drunkenly falls from a terrace while his friend Juan watches helplessly. David's body hits a car hood and shatters into a thousand pieces. Since no one else seems shocked by this, Juan sets out to discover what happened, finding himself immersed in a labyrinth of fleeting romances, unbreakable friendships and pianos falling from the sky.
Stranger Eyes - Q&A with Director Yeo Siew Hua
Aug 29 (6pm), Aug 30 (3:15pm), Aug 31 (3:15pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A young married couple's baby daughter goes missing and suspicion falls on their voyeur neighbor.
A Little Prayer
Q&A with Writer/Director Angus MacLachlan, Actor David Strathairn
Aug 29 (7pm), Aug 30 (7pm)
Q&A with Actor David Strathairn
Aug 31 (4:30pm)
Angelika Film NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A man tries to protect his daughter-in-law when he finds out that his son is having an affair.
Unbreakable & Pulp Fiction - Q&A with Director M. Night Shyamalan
Aug 31 (5:30pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
Lady in the Water & The Princess Bride - Q&A with Director M. Night Shyamalan
Sep 1 (6pm)
Film at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Somnium - Q&A with Writer/Director Racheal Cain
Sep 4 (7pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
At experimental sleep clinic, Somnium, dreams are made real. Side effects may include: hallucinations, confusion, paranoia, sleep paralysis, detachment from reality, lost sense of self, permanent nightmares.
Treme (TV pilot episode) - Q&A with Writer/Creator David Simon, Actor Wendell Pierce
Sep 6 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Life after Hurricane Katrina as the residents of New Orleans try to rebuild their lives, their homes, and their unique culture in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the USA.
A Quiet Passion - Q&A with Actress Cynthia Nixon
Sep 18 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
The Cornelia Street Cafe in Exile - Q&A with Director Michael Jacobsohn, subject Robin Hirsch
Sep 25 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)
For over forty years, the Cornelia Street Cafe was more than just a café; it was a vibrant, eclectic haven for artists, poets, and musicians, lovingly nurtured by its visionary owner, Robin Hirsch. This film chronicles its extraordinary journey, celebrating the unforgettable voices and cherished memories that filled its iconic walls.