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 Juneteenth and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
Road to Everywhere - Q&A with Actor Robert Mirabal
Jun 19 (5:30pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
A Los Angeles cab driver is offered the trip of a lifetime by a local casino dealer and gambler who wants to return to the Navajo Reservation to the home he abandoned 30 years ago to see his grandson compete in a Native American rodeo.
Cam - Q&A with Writer/Director Daniel Goldhaber
Jun 19 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she's been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.
Rose of Nevada - Q&A with Director Mark Jenkin
Jun 19 (6:15pm), Jun 20 (6:15pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
Rose of Nevada - Q&A with Director Mark Jenkin
Jun 19 (7:40pm), Jun 20 (7:40pm), Jun 21 (4pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
La niña de la cabra (Goat Girl) - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actress Ana Asensio
Jun 19 (6:20pm), Jun 20 (6:20pm), Jun 21 (6:20pm)
Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, Manhattan)
Eight-year-old Elena prepares for her First Communion while grappling with her grandmother's death. Her friendship with gypsy girl Serezade, inseparable from her goat, makes Elena question her worldview.
Peter Asher: Everywhere Man - Q&A with Directors Dan Geller & Danya Goldfine
Jun 19 (7pm), Jun 20 (7pm), Jun 21 (2:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
The extraordinary life of Peter Asher—pop star, producer, manager, and confidant to legends such as Paul McCartney, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt.
Flood - Q&A with Director Katy Scoggin
Jun 19 (2:30pm, 4:45pm, 7pm), Jun 20 (2:30pm, 4:45pm, 7pm), Jun 21 (1:30pm, 4pm, 6:30pm), Jun 25 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A filmmaker is starting a new project about evolution and geologic time, but her disagreements with her religious father, a young earth creationist who refutes the theory of evolution, keep getting in the way.
Flag Day - Q&A with Producers/Directors Andrew Shea & Melissa Shea
Jun 20 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in the small farming community of Three Oaks, Michigan — home to the nation’s largest Flag Day parade — Flag Day is a verité portrait of ritual, identity, and belonging in an era of deep political division.
This Long Century with Ben Rivers
Jun 21 (3:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
3 films from Ben Rivers: Ijen, London (2022, 7 mins), Slow Action (2010, 45 mins), Ah, Liberty (2008, 19 mins)
Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC - Q&A with Jack Johnson
Jun 22 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An intimate documentary following Johnson's journey from surfer to filmmaker to world-renowned musician through rare archives and present-day reflections on how experience, friendship, and exploration shaped his sound and stories.
An American Affair - Q&A with Director William Olsson, Actress Gretchen Mol
Jun 22 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
In 1963, during the swirl of glamour and intrigue that turned President John F. Kennedy's Washington into Camelot, a lonely 13-year-old Catholic school boy comes of age.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - Q&A with Costume Designer Debra McGuire
Jun 22 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
In the 1970s, an anchorman's stint as San Diego's top-rated newsreader is challenged when an ambitious newswoman becomes his co-anchor.
Steal This Story, Please! - Q&A with Directors Carl Deal & Tia Lessin, subject Amy Goodman
Jun 23 (7:35pm)
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.
Drunken Noodles - Q&A with Director Lucio Castro
Jun 24 (7:30pm), Jun 26 (7:35pm), Jun 27 (7:35pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Over two summers, between city streets and forest paths, young art student Adnan has a series of unexpected intimate encounters.
Camp - Q&A with Director Avalon Fast
Jun 24 (7pm), Jun 26 (9:10pm), Jun 27 (9:10pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A story of impossible redemption, modern witchcraft, and duels that repeat themselves like cursed cycles.
Hairspray - Q&A with Writer/Director John Waters
Jun 25 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Desperate Living - Extended intro with Writer/Director John Waters
Jun 25 (9:10pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A neurotic society woman murders her husband with her maid's help. On the lam, they escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled by a fascist queen.
Camp - Q&A with Director Avalon Fast
Jun 25 (7:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
A story of impossible redemption, modern witchcraft, and duels that repeat themselves like cursed cycles.
Romería - Q&A with Writer/Director Carla Simón
Jun 25 (7:30pm), Jun 27 (4:45pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
With her mother's diary in hand, Marina's search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.
State of Firsts - Q&A with Director Chase Joynt
Jun 25 (7pm), Jun 27 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Sarah McBride's groundbreaking campaign becomes the first transgender Congressional victory amid anti-trans political tension.
Mikey and Nicky - Q&A with Director Elaine May, Producer Julian Schlossberg
Jun 26 (6pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (135 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.
Second Nature - Q&A with Narrator Elliot Page, Writer Joan Roughgarden, Writer/Director Drew Denny
Jun 26 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Elliot Page narrates SECOND NATURE, a hilarious and heartening romp through the animal world, led by brave scientists fighting censorship as they reveal the truth about our nature.
Careful - Q&A with Guy Maddin
Jun 26 (7:30pm), Jun 27 (6:50pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
The wary residents of a 19th century mountain village must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.
Romeria - Q&A with Director Carla Simon
Jun 26 (6pm), Jun 27 (6pm)
Francesca Beale Theater FLC (144 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
With her mother's diary in hand, Marina's search for official documents for university leads her to her biological family on the Atlantic coast. What starts as an administrative quest reveals long-buried family secrets.
Bouchra - Q&A with filmmakers Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani, John Michael Boling, & Jason Coombs
Jun 26 (7pm), Jun 27 (4:40pm), Jun 28 (7:30pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Bouchra, a 35-year-old Moroccan coyote in New York documents her long-distance relationship with her mother in Casablanca, as they explore together the love, pain and secrets that unite them through calls and intimate conversations.
Cielo - Q&A with Writer/Director Alberto Sciamma
Jun 26 (7:15pm), Jun 27 (7:15pm), Jun 28 (2:10pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
How far would you go to reach heaven? Santa, a young indigenous girl, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother out of a life of hardship and into eternal paradise.
For the Love of a Woman - Q&A with Writer/Director Guido Chiesa
Jun 26 (7pm), Jun 27 (7pm), Jun 28 (4:45pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Esther, an American woman, sets out on a journey to Israel in the late 1970s in search of her family's origins and, piece by piece, reconstructs an extraordinary story.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Jun 27 (1:45pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, 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.
2 Lizards & Culturesport: Rotterdam 95 - Q&A with filmmakers John Michael Boling, Jason Coombs, Orian Barki, & Meriem Bennani
Jun 27 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
2 Lizards: Depicts a surrealist view of the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolded in New York City
Culturesport: In the Netherlands, the ocean is rising. A reclusive engineer has arrived in Rotterdam, promising to invent a new system of dikes and dams, using a computer that harnesses the power of dreams.
Breakfast of Champions - Q&A with Editor Suzy Elmiger
Jun 27 (7pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.
Quills - Q&A with Writer Douglas Wright
Jun 28 (1pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Maintenance Artist - Q&A with Writer/Director Toby Perl Freilich
Jun 28 (2pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
NYC's first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, blends art with waste management in Maintenance Artist, exploring her groundbreaking public art career.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Jun 28 (5pm)
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.
Ethan Bloom - Q&A with Writer/Producer Maylen Dominquez, Actor Caroline Valencia
Jun 29 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
Thirteen-year-old Ethan is supposed to be preparing for his bar mitzvah. But despite his Jewish family, Ethan is convinced his spiritual calling lies with the Catholic church, where he secretly finds solace under the guidance of Father Diaz.
The Floaters - Q&A with Director Rachel Israel, Producer Lily Korman
Jun 30 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
THE FLOATERS follows struggling musician Nomi who accepts a last-resort job from her overachiever best friend Mara: mentoring misfit campers, the "Floaters," at their childhood Jewish summer camp.
Wild Style - Q&A with Director Charlie Ahearn
Jul 2 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World - Q&A with Director Sasha Waters
Jul 2 (6:30pm), Jul 3 (6:45pm)
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.
Seeing Red - Q&A with Co-Director Jim Klein
Jul 3 (4:50pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Tokyo Pop - Q&A with Director Fran Rubel Kuzui
Jul 3 (7:20pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Aspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock 'n' roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.
Rate It X - Q&A with Directors Lucy Winer & Paula De Koenigsberg
Jul 5 (2:55pm), Jul 6 (7:20pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A portrait of the various forms of male sexism existing in contemporary American society.
For the Love of a Woman - Q&A with Actor Mili Avital
Jul 7 (6pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
Esther, an American woman, sets out on a journey to Israel in the late 1970s in search of her family's origins and, piece by piece, reconstructs an extraordinary story.
Born In Flames - Q&A with Director Lizzie Borden
Jul 7 (7:20pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are dealt with by the government.
Variety - Q&A with Director Bette Gordon
Jul 8 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patron of the Times Square porn theater called Variety where she works selling tickets. This awakens her sexuality, which confuses her worried boyfriend.
Sherman's March - Q&A with Writer/Director Ross McElwee
Jul 8 (7pm), Jul 9 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
Señorita - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Isabel Sandoval
Jul 9 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A transgender woman tries to leave sex work by taking care of a friend's son and joining a mayoral campaign, but she's hindered by an old client who controls the opposing campaign.
El Super - Q&A with Producer Manuel Arce
Jul 9 (6:35pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Slice-of-life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It's February, 1978; the winter is harsh, and for 10 years Roberto's been the super of an apartment building: firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage. He's homesick for Cuba.
Manhood - Q&A with Director Daniel Lombroso
Jul 9 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows Dallas entrepreneur Bill Moore as he attempts to make penis enlargement as commonplace as Botox.
Aparisyon (Apparition) - Q&A with Writer/Director Isabel Sandoval
Jul 10 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Story about nuns living in a remote convent during the Marcos years.
Remake - Q&A with Writer/Director Ross McElwee
Jul 10 (7:45pm), Jul 11 (5:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Ross McElwee explores time and memory through footage of his son Adrian, weaving their shared filmmaking past with an unfinished Hollywood remake of Sherman's March, creating a meditation on loss and documentation.
Lingua Franca - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Isabel Sandoval
Jul 11 (2:15pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
An undocumented Filipina trans woman falls in love in Brooklyn.
Moonglow - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actor Isabel Sandoval
Jul 11 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
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.
We Met at Grossinger's - Q&A with Director Paula Eiselt, Producer Robert Friedman, Susan Etess (granddaughter of Grossinger's founders)
Jul 12 (7pm)
92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)
A nostalgic exploration of the Borscht Belt's golden era through Grossinger's Resort, once the crown jewel of Jewish vacation destinations in the Catskills, from its heyday to decline.
Daylight - Q&A with Director Jon Kasbe, film subject Joe Garcia
Jul 14 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Serving a life sentence, Joe Garcia finds an unexpected lifeline in the music of a pop superstar.
The Kidnapping of Arabella - Q&A with Writer/Director Carolina Cavalli
Jul 17 (6:45pm), Jul 18 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
An Italian woman named Holly is convinced she's the wrong version of herself until meeting a 7-year-old girl who changes her perspective.
American Doctor - Q&A with Director Thaer Ahmad, film subjects Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, & Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
Jul 21 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
When three American doctors-Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian-enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Footloose - Q&A with Actor Kevin Bacon
Jul 21 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
A big city teenager moves to a small town where Rock and Roll music and dancing have been banned by backward local parents and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Manila's Finest - Q&A with Director Raymond Red, Actor Piolo Pascual
Jul 22 (7:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set during the first quarter storm in the 1970s, policemen Homer, Conrad, and Billy are consumed by the murder case of troublemaking teenagers in the slums.
A Sad and Beautiful World - Q&A with Writer/Director Cyril Aris
Jul 24 (7pm), Jul 25 (7pm), Jul 26 (2:40pm)
Across three decades, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family in Lebanon, or leave their home amid the country's unfolding tragedies.
So Far from India - Intro by Director Mira Nair
Jul 28 (7pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
Two years after his arranged marriage and emigration to the United States, a young husband returns to India to reunite with his wife, meet his baby son, and visit his family and in-laws before going back to New York City.
The Great Experiment - Q&A with Directors Stephen Maing & Eric Daniel Metzger
Jul 28 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
More than 200 years after George Washington described the United States' new system of democracy as the last great experiment in promoting human happiness in civil society, filmmakers Steve Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar check up on how that is unfolding for our indivisible Republic.