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 September 12th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Sep 12 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Tim Blake Nelson stars as 'Bang Bang' Rozyski, an eccentric retired pugilist obsessed with rectifying the sins of his past.

Sep 12 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A woman, grieving her daughter's death in the Christchurch quakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite school. Unexpectedly, she discovers students lacking guidance and care, prompting her to provide inspiration and support.

Sep 12 (7pm), Sep 13 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

An anthology following the residents of a small town and the lake that binds them together.

Sep 12 (7pm), Sep 13 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world's prettiest photographer, had a huge influence in 20th-century pop culture though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for the feminist movement and the sexual revolution.

Sep 12 (7pm), Sep 13 (7:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In near-future Tokyo, the threat of a catastrophic quake looms. Two friends prank their principal before graduation, leading to school surveillance installation.

Sep 12 (7:45pm), Sep 13 (7:45pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

17-year-old Johanne drifts and daydreams like any teenager, until one day her restlessness morphs into all-consuming passion for her charismatic French teacher, Johanna.

Sep 13 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

Sep 13 (7:10pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

When Ashley asks for a divorce, the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. Their secret to happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.

Sep 13 (7:30pm), Sep 14 (2:30pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

We Strangers is an addictive and haunting study of race, class and assimilation, centering around Ray, a charming and self-determined woman living in Gary, Indiana.

Sep 14 (3pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern town.

Sep 14 (4:45pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

A madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Filmed in NYC, Detroit, San Francisco, Ireland, Berlin and the Cote d'Azur.

Sep 14 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

'Bang Bang' Rozyski is an eccentric retired pugilist obsessed with rectifying the sins of his past.

Sep 14 (7:15pm)

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.

Sep 15 (6:30pm), Sep 16 (6:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Multiple short animated films.

Sep 16 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up. His girlfriend thinks he's dying. Rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows gathers to say their last farewells.

Sep 16 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In 1970 NYC, anti-Vietnam War student protesters confronted construction workers in violent clashes, creating a cultural rift that transformed American politics.

Sep 16 (9:15pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Sep 17 (5:45pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

Follows correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings.

Sep 17 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Documentary chronicling the life of Carl Craig — techno pioneer, visionary producer and one of the most influential figures in modern electronic music.

Sep 17 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis"

Sep 17 (7:50pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

This drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.

Sep 17 (7pm), Sep 18 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target.

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.

Sep 18 (7pm), Sep 19 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis.

Sep 19 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A stirring near-futuristic romance of two best friends who harbor an unspoken love for one another even after a test matches one of them up with their supposed soulmate.

Sep 19 (8:30pm)

Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

An Indian-American virgin gets a job teaching high school sex ed.

Sep 19 (7pm), Sep 20 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Exploring the controversial NBC series that caught potential child predators in sting operations, leading to arrests, and its eventual cancellation.

Sep 19 (7pm), Sep 20 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for a figure skating duo, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds.

Sep 19 (7:20pm), Sep 20 (2:30pm, 7:20pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Follows the inspirational tale of a young girl and her grandmother spending a summer on a small, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland.

Sep 19 (7:30pm), Sep 20 (12pm, 7pm), Sep 21 (11am)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

Ambitious teen orators hone their craft, vying for glory in a prestigious global speech contest. Through dedication and artistry, they prepare to showcase their talents on the ultimate stage.

Sep 19 (6:30pm), Sep 20 (4pm), Sep 21 (3:15pm, 6:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Matthias masters impersonating roles for hire: cultured boyfriend, perfect son, sparring partner. Professionally adept at pretending daily, his true challenge lies in being himself.

Sep 20 (9pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

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.

Sep 21 (2:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

An examination of the male oswenka pageant in South Africa on the 10-year anniversary of the abolishment of the apartheid regime.

Sep 21 (4pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

Sep 21 (6:55pm)

Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)

The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of his contemporary and rival, Antonio Salieri.

Sep 23 (7:15pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

Follow the history of misdeeds and debauchery at Walt Disney World Resort over 30 years, which leads to the theft of almost half a million dollars worth of stolen props.

Sep 23 (7:30pm)

Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

A visual album set to William Tyler's new album "Time Indefinite", the film weaves together found footage from his family archives into a poetic meditation on memory, decay, and the passage of time.

Sep 24 (7pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

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.

Sep 26 (7pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

Follows mujra dancers as they defy censorship, predatory managers, and social stigma in pursuit of stardom.

Sep 26 (7:10pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

After a devastating loss, witty and proudly troublesome Eleanor Morgenstein, 94, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own.

Sep 27 (4pm)

Bronx Documentary Center (614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx)

Confronted with the death of his stepfather, Director Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey to understand the man who raised him, Pule Benjamin Leinaeng - an ANC foot-soldier who sacrificed his life for the freedom of his country.

Sep 27 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

Sep 27 (8pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

An absurdist tragedy set in a repressive society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face.

Sep 28 (12:15pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Sep 28 (4pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

As an experiment, Mehran Tamadon asks exiled Iranians to interrogate him as if they were an agent of the Islamic Republic. A renowned actor with first-hand knowledge of such mistreatment takes up the challenge.

Sep 28 (4:05pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.

Sep 28 (7:15pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Sep 29 (6:55pm)

IFC Center (323 6th Avenue, Manhattan)

The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.

Oct 3 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A young man is kept distant from his lover by a strict and unforgiving society. He'd go through hell to be with her, but when a deal with the devil goes sour, hell comes to him instead.

Oct 3 (7:25pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Ulrike Ottinger, then a young painter, lived in Paris in the 1960s. Now a film-maker, she looks back on that time, weaving memories of the Parisian life and the upheavals of the time into a cinematic poem with the city at its center.

Oct 3 (7pm), Oct 4 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy's frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond.

Oct 4 (5:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him.

Oct 5 (2:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Filmmaker Mary Stephen explores her family history to discover why she has a Western last name, uncovering tales of cultural collision, colonial influence, and disputed memories.

Oct 12 (5pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.