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 July 31st and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
Galaxies (screens with Uncut Gems) - Q&A with Director Aidan Sullivan
Jul 31 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Out in the New Jersey suburbs, a teenage weed dealer succumbs to a series of misfortunes.
Welcome II The Terrordome - Q&A with Writer/Director Ngozi Onwurah
Jul 31 (7pm), Aug 1 (7pm)
BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)
Racial violence breaks out in a huge, black ghetto - triggered by a white woman living there with a black man.
A Paradise Lost - Q&A with Director Laurie Sumiye
Jul 31 (7pm), Aug 1 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
The strange, heartbreaking case of a bird in Hawaii suing the state to prevent its own extinction.
Jimmy - Q&A with Director Yashaddai Owens
Jul 31 (6:45pm SOLD OUT), Aug 1 (6:45pm), Aug 2 (6:30pm SOLD OUT)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Jimmy, is a narrative feature film imagining the young life of James Baldwin in Paris, newly arrived from New York.
The Samurai and the Prisoner - Q&A with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Jul 31 (6:05pm), Aug 2 (2:40pm), Aug 3 (6:05pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.
Wild Inside - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Jul 31 (6:30pm), Aug 1 (4pm, 6:30pm), Aug 2 (4pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.
Rebel With a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, film subject Ellen Jovin
Aug 1 (4:30pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, 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.
Glowing - Q&A with Director Beth B
Aug 1 (5pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
From love and loss to identity and power, from disabilities to the echoes of childhood trauma to the scars of war, Glowing dares to confront what lies beneath. Yet even in its darkest moments, it refuses despair — illuminating flickers of resilience, liberation, and hope. In the face of the unknown... we burn brighter.
El Norte - Q&A with Writer/Director Gregory Nava
Aug 1 (6pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte."
The Projectionist - Q&A with Director Alexandre Rockwell, Actors Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kasi Lemmons, Karyn Parsons, Kevin Corrigan, David Proval, Cinematographer Sam Motamendi, Composer Richard Edson
Aug 1 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In a forgotten theater, a haunted man's past flickers back to life-forcing a final reckoning.
The Samurai and the Prisoner - Q&A with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Aug 2 (4:15pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
Based on Honobu Yonezawa's novel. Set in 16th century Japan, follows Lord Murashige Araki who, besieged in his castle, confronts mysterious crimes and allies with imprisoned strategist Kanbei Kuroda to uncover the truth.
Jimmy - Q&A with Director Yashaddai Owens, moderator Barry Jenkins
Aug 2 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Jimmy, is a narrative feature film imagining the young life of James Baldwin in Paris in 1948, newly arrived from New York.
No Picnic - Q&A with Writer/Director Philip Hartman
Aug 3 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, 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.
The Tune - Q&A with Animator/Writer/Director Bill Plympton
Aug 4 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A songwriter in love with his demanding boss's secretary enters an alternate, wacky world where a much-needed hit tune may be created from his heart.
Just Another Girl on the IRT - Q&A with Writer/Director Leslie Harris
Aug 5 (7pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
Mississippi Masala - Intro with Director Mira Nair
Aug 5 (8pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
After Dark, My Sweet - Q&A with Actor Jason Patric
Aug 5 (9:30pm), Aug 6 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.
Wild Inside - Q&A with Director Penny Lane
Aug 6 (7:15pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Flaco, a captive-raised Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped NYC's Central Park Zoo in 2023. The largest owl species worldwide, he'd lived there 13 years since being a fledgling before gaining fame through his wild adventures.
The Fountain - Q&A with Writer/Director Darren Aronofsky
Aug 7 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.
Cookie Queens - Q&A with Writer/Director Alysa Nahmias
Aug 7 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
It's Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling "Cookie Queen," navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.
The Last Picture Shows - Q&A with Writer/Director Rustin Thompson
Aug 7 (7:20pm), Aug 8 (7:20pm), Aug 9 (7:20pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving.
In the Glow of Darkness - Q&A with Director Tucker Bennett, Composer Chris Corrente
Aug 7 (9:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Intersecting stories unfold in the cyberpunk city of San Zokyo, where a young hacker takes on the corporation behind Meme, a drug that mines users' psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads.
The Big Cheese - Q&A with Director Sara Joe Wolansky, film subject Adam Moskowitz
Aug 7 (7:35pm), Aug 8 (7:35pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
An underdog American team competes for first place at France's Mondial du Fromage: the Olympics of cheese.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma - Q&A with Writer/Director Jane Schoenbrun
Aug 7 (8:30pm SOLD OUT), Aug 8 (7:00pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A director making a slasher sequel becomes obsessed with casting the original film's 'final girl,' leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos.
Late Fame - Q&A with Director Kent Jones, Actors Willem Dafoe & Edmund Donovan
Aug 7 (6:50pm SOLD OUT, 7:50pm SOLD OUT), Aug 9 (2:25pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger's forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.
Amadeus - Q&A with Producer/Production Controller Paul Zaentz
Aug 9 (6:30pm)
Museum of Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
In 18th-century Vienna, court composer Antonio Salieri becomes awed and consumed by envy when the gifted, irreverent Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart bursts onto the imperial music scene.
Session 9 - Q&A with Writer/Director Brad Anderson, Writer/Actor Stephen Gevedon
Aug 11 (7pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
American Doctor - Q&A with Director Poh Si Teng, Producers Kirstine Barford & Reem Haddad
Aug 11 (7pm), Aug 12 (7:15pm), Aug 13 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, 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.
FAST - Q&A with Writer/Director Rob Tregenza
Aug 12 (6:30pm)
Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)
For Sterling, a sort of present-day Alice, the graveyard Lotus she redeems becomes a totem, a saturated phenomenon permitting her to move freely in time on a phantom road.
Riverdogs - Intro with Director Robb Moss
Aug 12 (7pm, 8:15pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
In 1978, Robb Moss was 28 years old, a former river guide in the Mountain West and dreaming of a career as a filmmaker. One fall, on a month-long Grand Canyon rafting adventure with a group of friends, he collected the footage of a glorious sun-drenched ode to youth and nature, to life lived, often without clothing, at the brink of the possible.
The Same River Twice - Q&A with Director Robb Moss
Aug 13 (6:30pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
From peyote to prozac, a sensitive portrait of five former hippies now approaching middle age.
Union County - Q&A with Director Adam Meeks, Actors Will Poulter & Annette Deao
Aug 13 (7pm SOLD OUT), Aug 14 (7pm SOLD OUT), Aug 15 (7pm), Aug 16 (2pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Assigned to a county-mandated drug court program, Cody Parsons embarks on the tenuous journey toward recovery amidst the opioid epidemic in rural Ohio.
Mysterious Skin - Q&A with Director Gregg Araki
Aug 14 (7:15pm), Aug 15 (2:05pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
Gypsy 83: The Director's Cut - Q&A with Writer/Director Todd Stephens, Producer Karen Jaroneski
Aug 14 (7:10pm with Actress Sara Rue), Aug 15 (7:10pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.
Memory of Princess Mumbi - Q&A with Director Damien Hauser
Aug 14 (6:30pm), Aug 16 (6:30pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)
In 2093, filmmaker Kuve visits Umata to document life after a war banned modern tech. Local filmmaker Mumbi challenges him to create without AI, leading him to discover beauty in life's simple moments.
The Bend in the River - Q&A with Director Robb Moss
Aug 14 (8:10pm), Aug 15 (6:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Following and filming friends for nearly fifty-years. THE BEND IN THE RIVER is an exploration of the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.
Make Me Famous - Q&A with Director Brian Vincent, Producer Heather Spore
Aug 15 (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.
Trees Lounge - Q&A with Actor/Writer/Director Steve Buscemi
Aug 20 (7pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)
Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking".
How to Divorce During the War - Q&A with Director Andrius Blaževicius
Aug 21 (6:40pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Set in Vilnius in 2022, high-flying executive Marija chooses the worst moment to discuss divorce with husband Vytas - one day before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The couple navigates separation amid a refugee crisis.
A Bright Future - Q&A with Director Lucía Garibaldi
Aug 21 (7pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Smart, inquisitive Elisa lands a job placement up North. Though it sounds perfect, there's one problem: nobody who goes there ever returns.
Learning to Fly - Q&A with Director Max Lowe, film subject Aisha McAdams, Producer Evan Hayes
Aug 21 (7pm), Aug 22 (4pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Follows Aisha McAdams - a photographer, and once a competitive runner herself - as she embeds with ultra running's biggest names at the legendary Western States Endurance Run and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc.
Lockjaw - Q&A with Writer/Director Sabrina Greco, Actress Blu Hunt
Aug 21 (7pm), Aug 22 (9:30pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Raina, trapped in a car accident, finds herself drawn to a manipulative magician, whose illusions mirror her dysfunction. Their relationship worsens, leading to a dark exploration of guilt, attraction, and fractured friendships.
Dreams in Nightmares - Q&A with Writer/Director Shatara Michelle Ford and others
Aug 21 (7:15pm), Aug 22 (7:15pm), Aug 23 (4:20pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Three friends in their mid-thirties as they road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
Dreams in Nightmares - Q&A with Writer/Director Shatara Michelle Ford
Aug 26 (6:45pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Three friends in their mid-thirties as they road trip across the Midwestern United States in search of their friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid.
Come What May - Q&A with Co-Director/Co-Producer Lahna Turner, Comedian Rich Voz
Aug 26 (7pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Come What May tells the full story of Ralphie May through the comics who stood beside him, the friends who knew him best, and the people who watched him burn bright at the center of comedy.
Filipiñana - Q&A with Writer/Director/Editor Rafael Manuel
Aug 28 (7pm), Aug 29 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Teen Isabel's attraction to Dr. Palanca at her country club job turns dark as she uncovers violence beneath the club's facade and discovers their disturbing connection from the past.
Boorman and the Devil - Q&A with Director David Kittredge
Aug 28 (6:45pm), Aug 29 (6:45pm), Aug 30 (6:45pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
After directing Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was offered to direct The Exorcist II. The film became a massive failure, nearly ending his career. Years later, cast and filmmakers discuss its ambition and artistic value.
The Stamp Thief - Q&A with Director Dan Sturman, Producers Gary Gilbert & Dylan Nelson
Sep 8 (7pm)
Marlene Meyerson JCC (334 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan)
Seinfeld producer Gary Gilbert seeks to recover stamps stolen from victims of the Holocaust by a rogue Nazi officer. This real-life mission is part detective story, part heist film, and a small but powerful act of historical reckoning.
Marie Antoinette - Q&A with Director Sofia Coppola
Sep 10 (6pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero - Q&A with Director Josh Sabey
Sep 11 (7:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
After the 9/11 attacks, no one could agree what should be done with Ground Zero. And so New York did something really crazy. They asked the people to decide.
On a String - Q&A with Actor/Writer/Director Isabel Hagen
Sep 11 (8:30pm)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
A Juilliard-trained violist navigates the New York City freelance classical musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the personal lives of strangers, all while living in her oddball family's NYC apartment.
Ernie & Emma - Q&A with Writer/Director Bruce Campbell
Sep 11 (10pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Widowed pear salesman Ernie Tyler travels to scatter his wife's ashes in places she specified, each location stirring memories that help him process their marriage, his work life, and his future.
White Nights - Q&A with Actress Isabella Rossellini
Sep 15 (6:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?
Last Train to Fortune - Q&A with Actors Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters, James Paxton
Sep 17 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Follows Cecil Peachtree, a schoolteacher, and Dooley, an outlaw, as they strike a deal and develop an odd friendship along the road to Fortune after having to deal with gunfights, jailbreaks and saloon gals on the way.
Werewolf in a Women's Prison - Q&A with Director Jeff Leroy
Sep 17 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
When camping with her boyfriend, Sarah is attacked by a werewolf. She wakes up in a corrupt prison only to find out her boyfriend has been torn apart and she is the only suspect.