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 October 31st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Messy - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actress Alexi Wasser (and others)
Oct 31 (7pm), Nov 1 (7pm), Nov 2 (8pm), Nov 3 (9:30pm), Nov 6 (7:15pm), Nov 8 (7:45pm), Nov 9 (7:45pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Messy follows the life of brutally self-aware, promiscuous, love addict Stella Fox, who moves to New York after a devastating breakup, and all her disappointing romantic dalliances over the course of a summer.
Riefenstahl - Q&A with Director Andres Veiel
Nov 1 (12:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting awareness of the regime's atrocities.
Turbulence - Q&A with Director Anne Aghion
Nov 1 (4:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Through a series of tender, honest and visually stunning cinematic letters to her long lost mother, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion recounts her sometimes shocking odyssey in search of resolution and peace.
If You See Something - Q&A with Director Oday Rasheed, Actor/Producer Jess Jacobs
Nov 1 (7:10pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In the throes of a new love, an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum and an ambitious American woman start to build their life together in New York. When a crisis strikes, they are forced to navigate its impact on their relationship.
Shttl - Q&A with Actor Moshe Lobel
Nov 1 (7:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland.
Amour Apocalypse (Peak Everything) - Q&A with Actress Piper Perabo
Nov 2 (3pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A kennel owner, grappling with climate anxiety, falls in love with a customer service rep over the phone. Amid a natural disaster, he embarks on an adventurous, bilingual romantic journey to find her.
If You See Something - Q&A with Director Oday Rasheed, Actor/Producer Jess Jacobs
Nov 2 (5pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
In the throes of a new love, an Iraqi immigrant seeking political asylum and an ambitious American woman start to build their life together in New York. When a crisis strikes, they are forced to navigate its impact on their relationship.
Dog Eat Dog - Q&A with Director Paul Schrader
Nov 2 (5:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.
The Smashing Machine - Q&A with Writer/Director Benny Safdie
Nov 3 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
The story of mixed-martial arts and UFC champion, Mark Kerr.
Reportero - Q&A with Director Bernardo Ruiz
Nov 5 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an embattled weekly challenge the drug cartels and corrupt local officials during an unprecedented wave of violence against journalists in Mexico.
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk - Q&A with Director Sepideh Farsi
Nov 5 (6:45pm), Nov 6 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A filmmaker connects with a Palestinian woman in Gaza who documents life under bombardment. Their 200+ days of digital exchanges, the meaning shifts after Fatem's death in an Israeli attack on 16 April 2025.
A Peace of Art - Q&A with Director Olad Aden
Nov 6 (6pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem, Manhattan)
Documentary follows a group of young artists from Berlin, Paris, and New York as they participate in a ten-day intercultural exchange project in the vibrant metropolis of New York City.
The Gits - Q&A with Producer Jessy Bender, Editor Allan Spencer Wall
Nov 6 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
The Gits returns with a 20th Anniversary Edition, amplifying the legacy of one of punk rock's most urgent bands. Through electrifying performances and candid interviews, the film celebrates Mia Zapata, whose fearless voice still resonates.
The Black Hole - Q&A with Director Moonika Siimets
Nov 6 (8:15pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
The Black Hole is an absurdist, genre-blending comedic anthology that follows three interconnected stories in a suburban Estonian apartment complex, where residents encounter aliens and fantastical beings while grappling with everyday struggles like abuse, loneliness, and economic hardship.
Pistachio Wars - Q&A with Director Yasha Levine
Nov 6 (9:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
In a drought-stricken Beverly Hills, wealthy farmers face environmental crisis and water privatization. As marketing schemes run wild and resources dwindle, tensions escalate, leading to unexpected international conflict.
Peter Hujar's Day
Q&A with Director Ira Sachs
Nov 6 (7pm), Nov 8 (5:30pm, 7:45pm)
Q&A with Actress Rebecca Hall
Nov 7 (5:30pm, 7:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life.
Sentimental Value - Q&A with Director Joachim Trier and cast
Nov 6 (7:10pm), Nov 7 (7pm, 7:30pm)
Angelika Film NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.
Peter Hujar's Day - Q&A with Director Ira Sachs
Nov 7 (8:45pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life.
Caterpillar - Q&A with Director Liza Mandelup, film subject David Taylor
Nov 7 (7pm SOLD OUT), Nov 8 (7pm), Nov 9 (6pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Endlessly struggling to feel seen, David becomes infatuated with a mysterious company's promise to transform people's lives by permanently changing the color of their eyes.
31 Candles
Q&A with Writer/Director Jonah Feingold, Actors Sarah Coffey & Joey Dardano, Producers Jonah Weinstein & Hannah Welever
Nov 7 (7:15pm), Nov 8 (7:15pm), Nov 9 (3pm)
Q&A with Writer/Director Jonah Feingold
Nov 11 (7:15pm), Nov 12 (7:15pm), Nov 13 (7:15pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Leo Kadner, a 30-year-old New Yorker, has a Bar Mitzvah after reconnecting with his childhood crush Eva Shapiro. To complete his Mitzvah project, Leo must deal with situationships, exes, and family while on a deadline.
Murmuring Hearts - Q&A with Director Vytautas Puidokas
Nov 8 (1pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Matas, a 14-year old foster child, arrives at a Lithuanian rehab-farm where a group of men are recovering from addiction and aggression. Led by the charismatic Žanas, a former addict, the community follows a strict routine—praying, tending to animals, and making cheese—all to escape the troubled cycles of the past.
Rolling Papers - Q&A with Director Meel Paliale
Nov 8 (7:30pm)
Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Rolling Papers follows Sebastian, who leads a monotonous life as a store clerk. He finds his ordinary workday shaken up when he meets Silo, a free-spirited wanderer. Together, they smoke weed, drift through the ephemeral Estonian summer, and dream of a one-way ticket to Brazil.
Train Dreams - Q&A with Director Clint Bentley
Nov 9 (1:45pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
Based on Denis Johnson's beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.
Left-Handed Girl & Take Out - Q&A with Director Shih-Ching Tsou (and Sean Baker)
Nov 10 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their way will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and maintain the family unity. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her "devil hand," generations of family secrets begin to unravel.
Yanuni - Q&A with Director Richard Ladkani, Producer Anita Ladkani, EP Laura Nix, film subject Juma Zipaia
Nov 10 (8:15pm), Nov 11 (5:40pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her struggle intensifies after learning she's pregnant, while her husband, Special Forces ranger Hugo Loss, stands by her side.
Sirât - Q&A with Director Oliver Laxe
Nov 13 (6pm, 9pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 W 65th Street, Manhattan)
A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.
Arco - Q&A with Writer/Director Ugo Beinvenu
Nov 13 (6:45pm), Nov 14 (7pm)
Angelika Film NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
What if rainbows were actually time travelers flying across the sky? On his first flight through time, Arco (10) crash lands from the year 3000 into our near future. His fall is witnessed by a little girl, Iris, who helps him return home.
Time - Q&A with Editor Gabriel Rhodes
Nov 14 (6:40pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison.
The Business of Fancydancing - Q&A with Director Sherman Alexie
Nov 14 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Native American poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.
Trifole - Q&A with Director/Co-Writer Gabriele Fabbro, Actor/Co-Writer Ydalie Turk
Nov 14 (7:10pm), Nov 15 (7:10pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager. Armed with his loyal dog Birba, she hunts for a prizewinning truffle to save his home.
Rebuilding
Q&A with Director Max Walker-Silverman, Actor Josh O'Connor
Nov 14 (7:30pm SOLD OUT), Nov 15 (7:30pm SOLD OUT)
Q&A with Director Max Walker-Silverman
Nov 16 (5pm)
Angelika Film NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.
Steve Shapiro: Being Everywhere - Q&A with Director Maura Smith
Nov 14 (7pm), Nov 15 (7pm), Nov 16 (4:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Photojournalist Steve Schapiro documented iconic figures like Streisand, Ali, Bowie, MLK, Parks, RFK, Baldwin, and Hollywood legends. This documentary explores his remarkable career.
Terra Femme - Q&A with Director Courtney Stephens
Nov 16 (5:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Amateur travelogues by women in the 1920s-50s are woven into this meditation on the traveler's gaze.
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) - Q&A with Actors Adam LeFevre & Marceline Hugot
Nov 17 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
An anthology following the residents of a small town and the lake that binds them together.
On The Silver Globe - Q&A with Cinematographer Andrzej Jaroszewicz
Nov 18 (7pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
Blue Moon - Q&A with Actor Ethan Hawke
Nov 19 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Tells the story of Lorenz Hart's struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of "Oklahoma!".
The Sixth Borough - Q&A with Director Jason Pollard
Nov 20 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Blvd, Manhattan)
This vibrant documentary explores Long Island's indelible yet often overlooked impact on hip-hop's evolution, presented through the voices of the pioneering artists who shaped the genre's expansion beyond its urban roots.
Without Fear - Q&A with Director Ali Khamraev
Nov 20 (7:15pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A Bolshevik army officer and Uzbek who has been nursed back to health by a young Uzbek woman to whom he is now married, gains responsibility for the local village in 1929.
Three Portraits by Lucas Kane - Intro and Q&A with Director Lucas Kane
Nov 21 (8pm)
Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
This program showcases a series of shorts by NYC filmmaker and theater director Lucas Kane.
IMPRESSIONS OF RESISTANCE AND ERASURE (2021, 3 min, Super-8-to-16mm)
JACOB'S HOUSE (2025, 21 min, 16mm)
THREE SONGS FOR PETER BROOK (work-in-progress, 24 min, Super-8 and 16mm-to-digital)
Cutting Through Rocks - Q&A with Directors Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni
Nov 21 (7pm), Nov 22 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
First female councilor in her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi challenges tradition by teaching girls to ride motorcycles and fighting child marriage, while facing doubts about her motives.
Neighboring Sounds - Q&A with Director Kleber Mendonça Filho
Nov 22 (1:15pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.
The Seventh Bullet - Q&A with Director Ali Khamraev
Nov 22 (2:15pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Based on the conflict between the new atheistic communist government that ruled in Uzbekistan after the revolution in Russia and the traditional laws of Islam that Uzbek people believing for a thousand years.
Man Follows Birds - Q&A with Director Ali Khamraev, Actress Gulcha Tashbayeva
Nov 22 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees. Cast apart because he's poor and his father's drunk, Farouk is not happy in his village.
I Remember You - Q&A with Director Ali Khamraev, Actress Gulcha Tashbayeva
Nov 23 (2:15pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A dying woman's wish sends her son on a train journey from the steppes of Uzbekistan to the Russian hinterland in search of his father's grave.
Harlan County USA - Q&A with Director Barbara Kopple
Nov 23 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
All That's Left of You - Q&A with Director Cherien Dabis
Nov 23 (5:45pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.
Girlfriends - Q&A with Director Claudia Weill
Dec 7 (3:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Follows twentysomething Upper West Side photographer Susan who, alongside her poet roommate Anne, is trying to navigate the professional and romantic dead ends of 1970s city living.
Grey Gardens - Q&A with Co-Director Muffie Meyer
Dec 14 (5:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
Crossing Delancey - Q&A with Writer Susan Sandler
Dec 20 (3:15pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.