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 February 20th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Feb 20 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)

After seeing a viral video of a young trans woman claiming to be pregnant, an opportunistic filmmaker decides to document her journey to motherhood.

Feb 20 (7:15pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.

Feb 20 (6:45pm), Feb 21 (6:45pm), Feb 22 (2:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

After nearly 50 years of making music together, the Emerson String Quartet plays its final notes. An intimate and timeless tour film.

Feb 21 (2pm)

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.

Feb 21 (4:15pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Come Here: Four young travelers embark on a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the museum, but pass the time in other ways when they find out it's closed for refurbishment.

Graceland: A man and a mysterious women explore Bangkok over the course of one night.

Feb 21 (5pm SOLD OUT)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, 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.

Feb 21 (7pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Follows the story and challenging life of legendary musician and genius keyboardist Billy Preston.

Feb 22 (12:15pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

For over forty years, the Cornelia Street Cafe was more than just a café; it was a vibrant, eclectic haven for artists, poets, and musicians, lovingly nurtured by its visionary owner, Robin Hirsch. This film chronicles its extraordinary journey, celebrating the unforgettable voices and cherished memories that filled its iconic walls.

Feb 22 (2:45pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

The movie shows the work that Rosenwald did in his efforts, with Booker T. Washington, to build over 5,300 schools for African-American children.

Feb 22 (3pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In 1970, She was student activist, a waitress who keeps changing her job, now a film director. All lives loosely connected to each others.

Feb 22 (5pm)

New Plaza Cinema (35 West 67th Street, Manhattan)

After Liat Beinin Atzili is kidnapped on October 7th, her Israeli-American family faces their own conflicting perspectives to fight for her release and the future of the places they call home.

Feb 24 (7pm)

BAM (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn)

Black soldiers fleeing a rigged court-martial seek refuge in a small Georgia town where a racist sheriff terrorizes Black residents. With one ally, Major Quinton forms a secret army to fight for freedom in one fateful night.

Feb 24 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In the lead-up to Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City, many of the city's Jewish population found themselves at odds over the candidate's positions on Palestine and Israel. By inviting viewers into the homes of New Yorkers on both sides of the campaign, DOC NYC alumna Alison Klayman reveals a fierce battle among American Jews over identity, history, and responsibility.

Feb 25 (7pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A Russian teacher secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing the ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.

Feb 25 (7:30pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Feb 26 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Feb 26 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary Nova Convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Zappa, Ginsberg and more collided in an explosion of ideas, art and rebellion.

Feb 26 (7:30pm), Feb 27 (7:15pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

A newly divorced sober mom goes to a wedding with a much younger date and behaves like a drunk 25 year old bridesmaid to try and keep up.

Feb 26 (6:50pm), Feb 27 (6:50pm), Feb 28 (6:50pm, 7:35pm), Mar 1 (2:45pm, 3:30pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A powerful American socialite and an undocumented Mexican ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair in this tense, erotic drama.

Feb 27 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Feb 27 (6:30pm, 7pm)

Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, Manhattan)

Follows Elvis Presley, featuring never-before-seen footage and recordings.

Feb 27 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Agronomist, poet, utopian thinker, and revolutionary... Often referred to as the African Che Guevara, Cabral led the anti-colonial movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde against Portuguese colonialism until his murder in 1973.

Feb 27 (7:15pm with Writer Samantha Smart), Feb 28 (7:15pm), Mar 1 (2pm)

Angelika New York (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

When a music therapist begins working with a unique young patient, she is confronted with her past and what it means to live. Set in a small, rural town in Texas.

Feb 28 (4:30pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Narrative: On the 15th anniversary of the 2010 pro-democracy protests in Bangkok, the filmmaker invited families of the victims to take part in rehearsal workshops for her forthcoming fiction film about the trial of the perpetrators.

Local Sensations: The film unfolds as an oblique exploration of monuments and sanctification in Thai society.

Feb 28 (6:30pm)

Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, Queens)

New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.

Feb 28 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Working with a group of collaborators, Hopinka invited singers, drummers, and dancers from across the powwow circuit, along with vendors and community members, to participate in a gathering at Seattle's Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center.

Feb 28 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

A comedy feature about an aspiring director who recklessly moves himself and his nine-months-pregnant actress wife from Iowa to LA to shoot a low-budget indie movie and sell it to a streamer for a "f***-ton of money."

Mar 1 (2pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Veiroj weaves dialogue from diverse sources: his 30-year personal archive, film excerpts, and footage from a psychiatric hospital where his father received diagnosis. These images dissect complex family experiences and relationship.

Mar 1 (2pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Krabi, 2562: The landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. It captures the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Mar 1 (4:30pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

n 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir - the chief of the Osijek Police Department, a man dedicated to negotiations and avoiding war - was assassinated. Peacemaker is a story about the last few months of his life, in the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, which Kir had been trying hard to prevent, told through the statements of a few witnesses and archive materials from the era.

Mar 1 (4:45pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

Explores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of course Ake's father. Ake is at first cold towards his nurse Pun, but as Pun continues to earnestly take care of him he starts to open up his heart through candid conversations.

Mar 2 (6:45pm)

Nitehawk Cinema Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn)

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.

Mar 2 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Matter of Britain is an ethnographic fantasy which documents an English country village's performance of the Holy Grail myth. In that myth, King Arthur's knights quest for the Holy Grail in order to heal their wasted land. The performance took place over 12 months from 2023 to 2024 in multiple locations across the parish of Mayfield, East Sussex.

Mar 2 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Downtown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.

Mar 2 (8:30pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

In the depths of the Maya jungle, a young Maya man hired to deliver hallucinogenic toads stumbles into a spiritual war between indigenous rebels and Euro-Western seekers, led by a parasitic white shaman with a thirst for power-and blood.

Mar 3 (7pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A young man infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group to find the killer of his LGBT+ activist boyfriend.

Mar 3 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A Life Illuminated follows renowned marine biologist Dr. Edith Widder as she embarks on an extraordinary journey into the magical world of deep sea bioluminescence.

Mar 4 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

This is Taylor Tomlinson's fourth Netflix special, following Quarter-Life Crisis (2020), Look At You (2022), and Have It All (2024).

Mar 5 (6:30pm)

Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A young police detective starts to work in Riga in the 90s. Pretty soon his enthusiasm meets the harsh reality of the streets and he realizes that to rid the city of crime, some borders - ethical and legislative, will have to be crossed.

Mar 5 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Dong and Chun are a young married couple stuck in the doldrums of their banal daily existence; their difficulty living together chafes against an undeniable physical chemistry. Unacknowledged, the shadow of Tiananmen looms in the background.

Mar 5 (7pm)

Maysles Documentary Center (343 Malcolm X Boulevard, Manhattan)

Four years after being shot with an AR-15 in her high school, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter.

Mar 5 (7:30pm)

Union Docs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Queens)

With the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban imposed a reign of terror that is particularly brutal towards women. Risking their own lives and those of their loved ones, groups of women fight for their rights.

Mar 6 (6pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.

Mar 6 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Mathias, a virtuoso pianist, lives an impossible love story.

Mar 6 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice." Based on a true story.

Mar 6 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Macy, a young woman, is abducted by a monstrous figure intent on raising her as their own child.

Mar 6 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Exiled from Iran after the ban on her 2009 film about the Green Movement, a filmmaker breaks her family's decades-long silence about a disappeared cousin, executed during the 1988 purges in political prisons.

Mar 7 (12pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Clémence, a lawyer, leaves her marriage to embrace her true self. Her ex-husband fights for custody of their son Paul, manipulating him. As their relationship deteriorates, Clémence struggles to maintain her maternal bond.

Mar 7 (2:15pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.

Mar 7 (3:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

When Fatima leaves her close-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she finds herself caught between her religious upbringing and the freedom of student life in the city.

Mar 7 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

In 1980s China, a displaced family's dream of returning to Shanghai from the provinces is threatened when their 19-year-old daughter falls in love with a local boy, forcing a choice between personal happiness and family ambition.

Mar 7 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

Two young grifters dream up their next big score while conspiracies unfold in Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Olympics.

Mar 7 (9:30pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Nino, a young man, explores the streets of Paris to reconnect with the world and himself, after being diagnosed with cancer.

Mar 8 (12:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

The story of Otto von Spreckelsen, a real-life architecture teacher from Copenhagen, who surprised the world when he won an open-call competition launched by French president François Mitterrand.

Mar 8 (2:15pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Factory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits.

Mar 8 (3pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Baptiste, a talented impressionist, can't manage to make a living. One day, a novelist, Pierre, asks him to imitate his voice over the telephone, so Pierre can write in peace and quiet. Gradually, Baptiste takes over Pierre's personality.

Mar 8 (4:30pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

It seems to be the time to consider bridges

Mar 8 (5:45pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A Polish engineer relocates to France and becomes a legendary counterfeiter. Working solo, he crafts flawless fake francs worth millions over 14 years, earning the nickname "Cézanne of counterfeit money" for his artistic skill and output.

Mar 8 (7pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

The relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.

Mar 8 (9pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A photographer at the peak of his career abandons his success to pursue writing, facing financial hardship and personal struggles as he chases his true passion.

Mar 8 (9:30pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

An all-access tour behind the scenes at France's premiere film school, La Fémis.

Mar 9 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

In rural France, Mika and Dan's dreams keep hitting dead ends. After Dan's latest mistake, they're forced to work in construction for their friend Tony, desperately seeking escape from their situation.

Mar 10 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Explores how Annie Ernaux's writing is taught in schools and universities.

Mar 10 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd 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.

Mar 11 (6pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Lilia returns to her native Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral to discover surprising details about his personal life that resonate with the secrets she keeps from her family.

Mar 11 (7pm)

Museum of Modern Art (11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan)

An intimate, unconventional portrait of Marc Jacobs, crafted by Sofia Coppola to capture the genius and singular universe of the iconic American designer.

Mar 13 (7pm)

UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Queens)

Combining a humorous and affectionate family portrait, a historical film and a search for identity, Defectors confronts the impact of the Korean War on different generations. Through encounters with a North Korean defector, Hyun kyung Kim reflects on her separation from her loved ones - such as her whimsical mother, whom she left behind in Korea upon moving to the United States.

Mar 13 (7pm)

Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty Street, Manhattan)

Corey Feldman embarks on a surreal rock tour with lingerie-clad 'angels', facing disastrous events that compel him to confront Hollywood abuse allegations and personal secrets.

Mar 14 (12:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

A teen vanishes on her birthday in winter on the French Riviera. Géraldine from the mayor's office investigates amid swirling rumors. Her mother's return complicates matters in a village where minor crimes abound.

Mar 14 (3pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

An actor reconnecting with his estranged daughter while preparing a one-man show about Victor Hugo.

Mar 14 (5:45pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Commissaire Maigret investigates the murder of a former ambassador in the Quai d'Orsay, and its connection to a decades long affair with a recently widowed princess.

Mar 14 (8:15pm)

Walter Reade Theater FLC (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan)

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Mar 19 (7pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap experiments.

Mar 19 (7:40pm), Mar 20 (7:40pm), Mar 21 (7:40pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

After a car crash kills her boyfriend, piano student Laura is taken in by Betty, who witnessed the accident. Living with Betty's family brings comfort, but Laura starts questioning their intentions as time passes.

Mar 20 (7pm), Mar 21 (4:15pm, 7pm)

Village East (181-189 2nd Avenue, Manhattan)

Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.

Mar 20 (7:45pm), Mar 21 (5:15pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.