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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Mr. Melvin - Q&A with Lloyd Kaufman
Nov 7 (6:30pm)
Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)
Stripped of purpose and poisoned by corporate evil, the Toxic Avenger is turned against Tromaville. Now, in this definitive cut of Parts II and III, he must confront the monster he's become before his town-and soul-are lost forever.
Sentimental Value - Q&A with Director Joachim Trier and cast
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 SOLD OUT)
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.
Bunny - Q&A with Writer/Director Ben Jacobson, Writer/Actor Mo Stark, Writer/Producer Stefan Marolachakis, Producer Sarah Sarandos
Nov 7 (7pm), Nov 8 (7pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Over one wild summer day and night in their East Village tenement, streetwise hustler Bunny and his friend Dino scheme with a crew of eccentric neighbors to cover up a dead body. Chaos reigns as the clock ticks and the heat rises.
Peter Hujar's Day
Q&A with Actress Rebecca Hall
Nov 7 (5:30pm, 7:45pm)
Q&A with Director Ira Sachs
Nov 8 (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.
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.
Köln 75 - Q&A with Director Ido Fluk
Nov 8 (4:05pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Vera Brandes, who, in 1975 and at the age of 18, staged the famous Köln Concert by jazz musician Keith Jarrett.
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.
Shttl - Q&A with Actor Moshe Lobel
Nov 8 (7:15pm), Nov 9 (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.
Messy - Q&A with Writer/Director/Actress Alexi Wasser (and others)
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.
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.
Turbulence - Q&A with Director Anne Aghion
Nov 9 (3:10pm)
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.
Elie Wiesel: Soul On Fire - Q&A with Director Oren Rudavsky
Nov 9 (5pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's life journey, from his family's deportation to his legacy as writer and human rights advocate, told through personal archives, family interviews, and his own voice.
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.
Entertainment - Q&A with Director Rick Alverson, Actor Gregg Turkington
Nov 11 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, middle-aged comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.
Resurrection - Q&A with Director Bi Gan
Dec 11 (6pm), Dec 12 (6pm)
Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)
In a society where people stops dreaming to extend their lifespan, some dangerous individuals still dream, warping the fabric of time. We experience five dreams, for each of the senses, each chronologically representing a period of cinema.
We Keep Us Safe - Q&A with Director Shawn Batey
Nov 12 (4pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Five documentary short films featuring Five activists in the 2020 NYC Black Lives Matter Movement. Illustrated through the work of 25 independent photographers & videographers, WE KEEP US SAFE provides personal journeys of activism in the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Changing Face of Harlem - Q&A with Director Shawn Batey
Nov 12 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Shot over a period over a decade (2000 - 2010), CHANGING FACE OF HARLEM examines the revitalization of Harlem told from personal stories of residents, small business owners, politicians, developers, and clergy.
Monk in Pieces - Q&A with Director Billy Shebar, Producer Susan Margolin
Nov 12 (7pm)
New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)
The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?
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), Nov 15 (7:30pm)
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.
Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives - Q&A with Stretch and Bobbito
Nov 18 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
During the 1990s, Stretch and Bobbito introduced the world to an unsigned Nas, Biggie, Wu-Tang, and Big Pun as well as an unknown Jay-Z, Eminem, and the Fugees. The late night program had a cult following in the art/fashion world and prison population as well.
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.
Harvest Season - Q&A with Director Bernardo Ruiz
Nov 21 (7pm)
Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)
Delves into the lives of the people who make California's premium wine possible, following Mexican-American winemakers and migrant workers whose labor is essential yet often overlooked
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)
Zodiac Killer Project - Q&A with Director Charlie Shackleton
Nov 21 (6:45pm), Nov 22 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Against the backdrop of deserted spaces, a filmmaker explores his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary, delving into the true crime genre's inner workings at a saturation point.
The Age of Disclosure - Q&A with Producer/Director Dan Farah
Nov 21 (7pm), Nov 22 (7pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Documentary that reveals an 80-year global cover-up of non-human intelligent life and a secret war among major nations to reverse-engineer advanced technology of non-human origin.
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.
Henry Street Settlement Movie Club - Q&A with Michael Jacobsohn
Nov 22 (4pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Abrons Arts Center presents a selection of short films produced by the then-teen filmmakers of the Henry Street Movie Club, a youth filmmaking workshop that was hosted by the Henry Street Settlement from 1968 to 1973.
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.
Teenage Wasteland - Q&A with Directors Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine
Nov 28 (7:30pm), Nov 29 (5:10pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
A teacher inspires a group of teenagers in the early 1990s to make a student film and they uncover a conspiracy that is poisoning their community. Thirty years later they revisit this transformative experience.
Benita - Q&A with Director Alan Berliner
Nov 28 (7pm), Nov 29 (7pm), Nov 30 (7:30pm), Dec 1 (6:30pm), Dec 2 (6pm), Dec 3 (7pm), Dec 4 (7pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
BENITA is Alan Berliner's intimate portrait of New York City filmmaker, Benita Raphan, who took her life by suicide in the middle of the Covid pandemic.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery - Q&A with Director Rian Johnson
Nov 29 (7:30pm)
Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)
Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead.
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.
Resurrection - Q&A with Director Bi Gan
Dec 10 (7pm), Dec 11 (7pm), Dec 12 (7:55pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
In a society where people stops dreaming to extend their lifespan, some dangerous individuals still dream, warping the fabric of time. We experience five dreams, for each of the senses, each chronologically representing a period of cinema.
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.