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 April 24th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know -
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Carousel - Q&A with Director Rachel Lambert
Apr 24 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Noah's settled life caring for his anxious daughter and medical practice is disrupted when his high school ex Rebecca returns. Their old spark remains, making them question if love deserves another chance.
Les 3 Inventeurs - Q&A with Director Michel Ocelot
Apr 24 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
In a white lace universe, three inventors create machine which are both pretty and useful. Unfortunately people do not understand them. (screening with 5 other short films)
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror - Q&A with Director Linus O'Brien
Apr 24 (7pm, 7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A London theater play evolves into a groundbreaking cult phenomenon, featuring iconic songs and performances that celebrate individuality. The legacy lives on through midnight screenings and a devoted following that spans generations.
The School Duel - Q&A with Director Todd Wiseman Jr.
Apr 24 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
When an opportunity for twisted notoriety arises, a tormented 13-year old, Sammy, enlists in a deadly competition.
Over Your Dead Body - Q&A with Director Jorma Taccone
Apr 24 (8pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A dysfunctional married couple retreats to a secluded cabin to repair their relationship, but each secretly plots to murder the other.
Bernstein's Wall - Q&A with Director Douglas Tirola
Apr 24 (7pm), Apr 25 (4:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A complex look at one of the greatest figures in 20th century classical music, Leonard Bernstein, whose passion and creativity guided him well beyond the concert hall.
Two Seasons, Two Strangers - Q&A with Director Sho Miyake
Apr 24 (7pm), Apr 25 (8pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet seaside exchanging distant looks and clumsy words in the rainy ocean. In winter, screenwriter Li arrives at a snowy village meeting Benzo at his guesthouse. Despite disconnected talks they embark together.
Omaha - Q&A with Director Cole Webley, Actor John Magaro
Apr 24 (7:30pm), Apr 25 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A father conceals the truth about his family's seemingly spontaneous cross-country road trip.
Just Sing - Q&A with Director/Cinematographer Abraham Troen
Apr 24 (7pm), Apr 25 (7pm), Apr 26 (3pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
USC's SoCal VoCals face their final pre-graduation test at New York's International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.
A Blind Bargain - Q&A with Director Paul Bunnell, Actors Jake Horowitz, Amy Wright, Rob Mayes, & Claudia MacLeod, EP John Falotico
Apr 24 (7:15pm), Apr 25 (7:15pm), Apr 26 (2:45pm)
Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Set in 1970, A BLIND BARGAIN reimagines the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name. A desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.
The Headless Woman - Q&A with Director Lucrecia Martel
Apr 25 (2:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois Argentine woman's life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone.
Ideas of Order - Q&A with Director Erin Espelie
Apr 25 (3pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A collision between the macro-collapse of ecosystems and the minutiae of cellular colonies, exploring entropy, unrestrained growth, waltzing mice, earlier-onset cancers, programmed death, and the bacteria that made Earth rich in oxygen.
It Goes That Quick - Q&A with Directors Ashley Connor, Joe Stankus
Apr 25 (4pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Combining various narrative and documentary filmmaking techniques, the filmmakers encourage their non-actor family members to re-enact moments from their actual lives within the parameters of a set storyline that remains unknown to the performers throughout the duration of the filming. Through this process, the filmmakers hope to discover and reveal greater meanings or truths within moments that may at first appear to be simple tasks.
Hot Water - Director Ramzi Bashour in-person
Apr 25 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Mother and son hit the road west, stopping at diners, motels, and hot springs along the way.
Kangaroo Island - Q&A with Director Timothy David
Apr 25 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A struggling Hollywood actress returns home to Kangaroo Island, confronting the love triangle that tore her family apart.
Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) - Q&A with Director Lucrecia Martel
Apr 25 (7:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Armed men kill Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, a court case opens in 2018. Community voices and trial footage are shown amid colonial land struggles.
The Double Life of Veronique - Q&A with Actress Irène Jacob
Apr 25 (7:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.
Two Women - Q&A with Director Chloé Robichaud
Apr 25 (6:30pm), Apr 26 (1:40pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Two struggling mothers grapple with unfulfilled expectations and societal pressures. As they navigate their roles as wives and professionals, one woman's unexpected affair sparks a reevaluation of their lives and priorities.
Steal This Story, Please! - Q&A with Director Tia Lessin
Apr 25 (5pm), Apr 26 (5:25pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please. is a gripping portrait of a journalist whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history.
Conbody vs Everybody - Q&A with Director Debra Granik
Apr 26 (12:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Conbody vs Everybody is the story of a tight-knit group of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who forge a pact for their mutual survival as they re-enter society after prison. Together they create a zone of acceptance for people reentering, in the form of an underground gym.
Fantasy Life - Q&A with Director/Actor Matthew Shear
Apr 26 (4:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
An actressfalls for the anxious law school dropout babysitting her kids in this smart, New York-set romantic comedy.
One in a Million - Q&A with Directors Itab Azzam & Jack Macinnes, subject Israa
Apr 26 (5:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A Syrian girl's decade-long journey to Germany and back, as she and her family face the challenges of war and life as refugees, showing both the hardships and hopes of starting anew.
Les Gardiennes du Fleuve - Q&A with Director Hassanie Mahamat Ibrahim
Zolla - Q&A with Victoria Neto
Apr 26 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Les Gardiennes du Fleuve - In the streets of Niamey, a group of women known as the takakoyos fight for their survival and dignity. Amina, 75, and her companions, who range in age from young to old—have left their villages in search of a better life.
Zolla - Caught between her disillusioned student life and the pressures of being the eldest daughter, Zolla, a twenty-year-old Black woman of Congolese descent, desperately seeks independence. To achieve this, she must confront her mother, who refuses to be abandoned a second time...
No Picnic - with Director Philip Hartman
Apr 26 (3:45pm Intro), Apr 30 (8:30pm Q&A)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Macabee Cohen, whose heyday as a rock musician is long gone, travels the city in a beat-up VW bus, supplying records to local juke boxes.
Heavy Healing - Q&A with Producer/Director Howie Abrams, Producer Seth Abrams
Apr 27 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Heavy Healing dives into the worlds of metal, hardcore punk, and underground hip-hop to reveal how loud music scenes become lifelines for people navigating disability, illness, trauma, and mental health challenges.
Mad Bills To Pay - Q&A with Director Joel Alfonso
Apr 28 (6:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Summer in The Bronx. He sells "nutcracker" cocktails, gets high, stays moving. Then she moves in. Two kids in a cramped apartment, playing house until the city reminds them how fast the streets make you grow up.
Mary Oliver: Saved By The Beauty Of The World - Q&A with Director Sasha Waters
Apr 28 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a quiet queer icon, captivated readers everywhere with her accessible celebration of nature, dogs, and life itself.
One Spoon of Chocolate - Q&A with Writer/Director RZA
Apr 28 (7pm), May 1 (7pm)
Regal Union Square (880 Broadway, Manhattan)
An ex-military convict seeks a fresh start in a small town, but his past catches up as he finds love amid danger and chaos.
Conbody vs Everybody - Q&A with Director Debra Granik
Apr 28 (6:30pm), Apr 29 (6:30pm), May 1 (6:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Conbody vs Everybody is the story of a tight-knit group of formerly incarcerated New Yorkers who forge a pact for their mutual survival as they re-enter society after prison. Together they create a zone of acceptance for people reentering, in the form of an underground gym.
Puddysticks - Q&A with Director Megan Seely
Apr 29 (6:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
A burned out young woman joins a secret society of traumatized adults who heal through childlike play.
Put The Camera On Me - Q&A with Director Darren Stein
Apr 29 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Before he went on to direct Jawbreaker (1999) Sparkler (1997) Darren Stein grew up making videos. Along with his friend 'Adam Shell' and the other neighborhood kids these young film makers touched on such adult subjects as jealousy, cruelty, and sexuality.
Invisible Borders - Q&A with Writer/Actor Bernardo Barreto
Apr 30 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
In an America gripped by fear and repression, a Latino ex-con and an abandoned boy race against time to find a missing mother - an undocumented immigrant on the brink of vanishing without a trace.
zi - Q&A with Director Kogonada, Actress Michelle Mao, Producer Christopher Radcliff
Apr 30 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night-and possibly her life.
This Girl’s Nervy: Films by Jennifer Reeves - Q&A with Director Jennifer Reeves
Apr 30 (7:30pm)
UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens)
When it was Blue: Jennifer Reeves Selected Works 1992–2022 arrives as a vital gathering of Reeves' singular body of work spanning her practice, moving across decades, formats, and states of transformation.
I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol - Q&A with Directors Nick Mead & Andre Relis
Apr 30 (8pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
A founding Sex Pistol reveals the band's chaotic rise, from London's grim 1970s streets to global notoriety, sharing untold stories of punk's birth, bandmate dynamics, and his overlooked role in creating their legendary album.
American Dream - Q&A with Director Barbara Kopple
May 1 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Recounts the 1985-86 strike against the Hormel Foods Corporation in Minnesota after its employees' wages and benefits were cut.
The Whole World Is a Lie - Q&A with Director Charlie Birns
May 1 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
What begins as a documentary about a New York acting class collapses when the students and teacher revolt against the film, forcing the filmmaker into a reckoning with truth and power in an age when reality itself feels like a performance.
Harlan County USA
Extended intro with Director Barbara Kopple
May 1 (9:10pm)
Q&A with Director Barbara Kopple
May 2 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
There There - Q&A with Director Andrew Bujalski
May 2 (12:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
A lover's doubt in the cold light of morning leads a chain of uneasy intimacies--counselors, disruptors, peacemakers and fire-starters--every one looking to have a little faith rewarded.
Joybubbles - Q&A with Director Rachael J. Morrison
May 2 (2pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Blind Joybubbles finds he can control phones by whistling specific tones. His discovery, born from loneliness, becomes foundational to hacking culture and tech history.
Humboldt USA - Q&A with Director G. Anthony Svatek
May 2 (3:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
The struggle for environmental protection interweaves with technological alienation and climate collapse, in this experimental journey of American nature.
Silent Friend - Q&A with Director Ildikó Enyedi
May 2 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Set in the botanical garden of a medieval town in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the world of the garden. An encounter.
Last Summer - Q&A with Actor Richard Thomas
May 3 (5pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an awkward girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Remakably Bright Creatures - Q&A with Actors Sally Field & Lewis Pullman
May 3 (6pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.
Moonglow - Q&A with Director Isabel Sandoval
May 3 (6pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Corrupt female detective secretly orchestrates daring heist. Unexpectedly paired with tenacious partner investigating her own crime. Forced to mislead him while staying ahead to crack the very crime that she orchestrated.
Gangsterism - Q&A with Director Isiah Medina
May 3 (9pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
As he mulls over the budget for his new film, director-gangster Clem sends his artist cronies after an old comrade rumoured to be a leaker.
TheyDream - Q&A with Directors William Caballero & Brad Jones, Producers Erin Ploss-Campoamor & Elaine Del Valle
May 5 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A director and his mother document their Puerto Rican family over 20 years, facing loss. Through animation, they celebrate memories while realizing each creation involves a painful goodbye.
Promised Sky - Q&A with Actors Aïssa Maïga & Laetitia Ky
May 6 (6:30pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Marie, Naney, and Jolie live together in Tunis, sheltering Kenza, a shipwreck survivor. As this unorthodox family forms, crises make each woman reconsider her place.
Blue Film - Q&A with Writer/Director Elliot Tuttle, Actors Reed Birney & Kieron Moore
May 6 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Fetish camboy Aaron Eagle agrees to spend the night with an anonymous client, only to discover a disturbing tie to his past.
Silent Friend
Q&A with Director Ildikó Enyedi, Actor Tony Leung
May 6 (6:50pm), May 7 (7:15pm, 7:45pm)
Q&A with Director Ildikó Enyedi
May 9 (3pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Set in the botancial garden of a medieval town in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the works of the garden.
My Father and Qaddafi - Q&A with Director Jihan
May 7 (5:30pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In 1993, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former diplomat and peaceful opponent to Qaddafi vanished in Cairo. His daughter Jihan investigates his disappearance while documenting her mother's 19-year search for truth.
Swingers - Q&A with Director Doug Liman, Producers Victor Simpkins, Nicole LaLoggia & Eden Wurmfeld
May 7 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends.
The Python Hunt - Q&A with Director Xander Robin
May 7 (6:30pm), May 8 (6:30pm), May 9 (6:30pm), May 10 (3pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Every year the Florida government invites the public to compete in an invasive python removal contest in the Everglades. For 10 nights, an eclectic group of hunters confront the dangerous terrain, nocturnal creatures and their own desires.
Clueless - Q&A with Actor Wallace Shawn, moderated by John Early & Lucas Kane
May 8 (1pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
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.
Southland Tales - Intro with Actor/Writer Wallace Shawn, moderated by John Early & Lucas Kane
May 8 (3:45pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
So Long a Letter - Q&A with Director Angèle Diabang
May 8 (8:30pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
After 25 happy years of marriage, teacher Ramatoulaye's lawyer husband takes her daughter's friend as second wife, sparking tensions between old customs and modern life.
Influenced - Q&A with Writer/Actress Jill Kargman
May 8 (7pm), May 9 (7pm), May 10 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Renown influencer Dzanielle navigates fake friends among the Black card-swiping, Ozempic sharting, workout-addicted Upper East Siders. In her comedic quest for a million followers, she finds her first real new friend and her true self.
Caméra d'Afrique (1983) - Q&A with Director Férid Boughedir
May 9 (12pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
A look at 20 years of African Cinema.
Afrotopia - Q&A with Director David Mboussou
May 9 (2:45pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In Gabon, within the Congo Basin, a young aspiring filmmaker forced into his father's logging empire uncovers a plan to destroy a sacred forest—and a buried colonial-era family secret.
Barni - Q&A with Director Mohammed Sheikh
May 9 (6pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
When a 9-year-old girl from a quaint Somali village goes missing, her older sister and two friends set out on a journey to find her.
When Nigeria Happens - Q&A with Director Ema Edosio Deelen
May 9 (8:30pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Follows a tight-knit group of misfit dancers whose world is upended when one's mother falls critically ill.
Lace Relations - Q&A with Director/Producer Katharina Weingartner
May 10 (3:30pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
As colorful and multilayered as Nigerian fabrics, this documentary uncovers the history of the textile trade that has intertwined Nigeria and Austria for centuries, enriching Europe while contributing to the collapse of West Africa's indigenous textile economy.
Rumba Royale - Q&A with Directors Hamed Mobasser & Yohane Dean Lengol
May 10 (6pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In 1959 Léopoldville, the Rumba Royale nightclub thrives to the beat of Congolese rumba as colonial rule wanes. Daniel, a young photographer, and Olive, an ambitious waitress, pursue dreams as love, power and politics threaten their world.
The Heart Is a Muscle - Q&A with Director Imran Hamdulay
May 11 (5:45pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
At a barbecue, Ryan's five-year-old son briefly goes missing. Ryan's violent reaction to this scare sets off a chain of events and unearths secrets from the past. A journey of self-discovery and forgiveness begins.
Sheitel: Beauty in the Hidden - Q&A with Director Lynda Medjuck Suissa
May 11 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
Sheitel shines a light on the world of Orthodox Jewish women and the practice of hair covering, revealing the deeper significance of this tradition as an expression of cultural identity, faith, and female empowerment.
Caméra arabe (1987) - Q&A with Director Férid Boughedir
May 12 (5:45pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more socially aware cinema. Themes include the issue of Palestinian homeland rights and the nature of Arab identity.
Reeling - Q&A with Director Yana Alliata
May 12 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
After a life-altering accident, Ryan returns home for a birthday luau and uncovers the secret of when things took a tragic turn.
95 and 6 to Go - Q&A with Director Kimi Takesue
May 15 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Tom Takesue is a hard-working, practical Japanese-American raised in Hawai'i, who discovers his filmmaking aspirations at the age of ninety when he becomes invested in "re-writing" a feature love story that his granddaughter is developing. His unusual script doctoring reveals larger concerns about love, loss, unrealized dreams, and mortality.
Agatha's Almanac - Q&A with Director Amalie Atkins
May 15 (7pm), May 16 (4:40pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
90-year-old Agatha Bock maintains her ancestral farm and heirloom seeds without modern amenities, preserving traditional practices through daily routines that document a fading way of life.
Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer - Q&A with Director Wes Orshoski
May 20 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
A pair of fans of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden launch a crowdfunding campaign to help Paul Di'Anno (aka The Beast), the band's iconic original singer, get back on his feet literally, emotionally and professionally.
Manas - Q&A with Director Marianna Brennand
May 22 (7:40pm), May 23 (7:40pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Aware that the future does not hold many options for her in a riverside community on Marajó Island, a 13-year-old girl decides to confront the violent machinery that governs her family and the women in her community.
Visio Cordis - Q&A with Director Sophie Hamacher
May 23 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Visio Cordis takes medical imaging as both subject and provocation, tracing how systems built to observe and measure do not merely reveal the body but also shape how care and rupture are interpreted.
Behind Her Eyes - Q&A with film subject Tova Friedman
May 26 (6pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
Behind Her Eyes tells the powerful journey of one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust who uses the power of social media to bridge across generations. Born in Poland in 1938, Tova was one of the few Jewish children to survive the horrors of Auschwitz. Tova proves that understanding how and why hatred erupts can serve as one of the strongest antidotes to building empathy and compassion.
Forastera - Q&A with Director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias
May 29 (7pm), May 30 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
During her Mallorca summer, Antonia recognizes similarities with her late grandma. She develops an influence over her mourning grandpa through dress-up, blurring who inhabits who.