NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and Art House New York Announce Inaugural Cinema Week- March 20-26 to support Independent Movie Theaters Across NYC. MOME will be funding 5,000 free tickets so all New Yorkers can experience the week's offerings. Nearly 30 independent local theaters are giving the community a way to discover or rediscover the art of filmmaking.
"As part of our work to ensure that all New Yorkers can enjoy the arts, I'm proud that MOME is partnering with Art House NY to provide thousands of free tickets to New Yorkers. These tickets will make it easier for working New Yorkers to enjoy these incredible films, and they will provide a boost for our local theaters and small businesses supporting the festival. Access to arts, culture, and entertainment should be a right for every New Yorker, not a luxury for the few," said Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su.
Advance tickets are currently available to all for purchase and additional information can be found on the Art House New York website
https://www.arthouseny.org. Additionally, with no advance registration required, eligible New Yorkers may attend screenings free of charge by presenting valid forms of identification at the box office. Eligible groups include, New York City teachers, CUNY students, United States active-duty military personnel and veterans, New York City families registered with "Cool Culture", People with disabilities upon presentation of reduced-fare OMNY card or Access-A-Ride ID, and SNAP/EBT cardholders.
"Cinema Week is a chance to celebrate the local, curated and community-oriented cinemas across our city that help New York feel like New York. We look forward to welcoming new and returning audiences and together making Cinema Week a reminder of why these spaces matter as a cultural cornerstone of New York City. Our cinemas' unwavering commitment to gathering people in real life, around complex stories and collective discussion, is an essential element to the future of our city, democracy, and daily lives." said AHNY Co-Founder, Allason Leitz.
Read on to find highlights of the schedule as well as a list of participating theaters:
Art House Cinema Week Highlights:
Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn
Programming Highlights
- Terror Tuesday: Phantasmatapes
- Weird Wednesday: Jackass Number Two
- Queer Film Theory 101: Daisies
- Sad Girl Cinema Club: Melancholia
Angelika Film Center & Cafe
Perks
- 50% off tickets (March 23–26) for Angelika Members
- Excludes special engagements/restricted films; studio restrictions may apply.
- Free large popcorn when signing up for the Free Angelika Membership (March 20- 26)
- 40% off merchandise (March 20–26) for Members
Programming Highlights
- Palestine '36 + Q&A with Annemarie Jacir
- Tow + Q&A with Director Stephanie Laing
- Marc by Sofia – Opens
- Two Women + Q&A with director Chloé Robichaud
- Kangaroo Island + Q&A with director Chloé Robichaud
- The Python Hunt + Q&A with Director Xander Robin
- Six Billion Dollar Man + Q&A with Director Eugene Jarecki
- Yes + Q&A with Nadav Lapid
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist + giveaways
- Fantasy Life + Q&A with Matthew Shear
Anthology Film Archives
Programming Highlights
- "Metaphysics Of The Pratfall: Jerry Lewis And Jean-Luc Godard"
- "Stephanie Barber: Jhana And The Rats Of James Olds, or 31 Days/31 Videos"
- Essential Cinema: Harry Smith, Walter Ruttmann, Frank Stauffacher, Paul Sharits, Michael Snow
- "Revelations Of The Middle Ages"
Brooklyn Academy of Music – Cinématek
Programming Highlights
- "Of Father and Sons: The Bakri Family On Screen"
- "Queering the Canon" (with NewFest)
- "Women's History Month Shorts Program" (with ReelSisters)
Cinema 123 by Angelika
Perks
- 50% off tickets (March 23–26) for Angelika Members
- Free large popcorn with new Free Angelika Membership (March 20–26)
- Exclusions may apply.
Cinema Arts Centre
Programming Highlights
- Conbody vs Everybody + appearance by Debra Granik
- Undocumented + panel discussion
- Christian Petzold's Transit
- Cinema for Kids: Lady and the Tramp
- Cult Café: Desperately Seeking Susan
Cinema Village
Perks
- Complimentary popcorn for all screenings on March 20
- Programming Highlights
- James Toback's BLACK AND WHITE + Q&A with filmmaker & cast
DCTV's Firehouse Cinema
Perks
- 15% off DCTV memberships (new or renewed)
- "Built to Move: NYC Subway on Film Series" – $5 Members / $10 General discounted tickets
- "Data Docs: Open Data on Screen" – $8 discounted tickets
Programming Highlights Include
- Style Wars
- Dark Days
- Documentary gems from the underground by D. A. Pennebaker, Barbara Hammer, Third World Newsreel and more!
Film at Lincoln Center
Perks
- Discount concessions at Walter Reade Theater (March 20–26)
- Small popcorn & drink: $5
- Large popcorn & drink: $10
Programming Highlights
- Miroirs No. 3 + Q&A with Christian Petzold
- Dry Leaf + Q&A with Alexandre & Giorgi Koberidze
Film Forum
Perks
- Discount pricing for all programming (excluding special events) March 20-26
- Two free extra months on all new memberships purchased during Cinema Week
Programming Highlights
- "Young Film Forum Archive Dive" screening introduced by Joel Coen & Frances McDormand
- Two Prosecutors premieres + Q&As with Sergei Loznitsa on March 20 & 21
- Agnès Varda Retrospective + intros and other special event
IFC Center
Perks
- $10 members / $15 general for all Catherine O'Hara films
Programming Highlights
- After Hours – 4K restoration and more Catherine O'Hara career highlights:
- Waiting For Guffman
- A Mighty Wind
- Best In Show
- Beetlejuice
- Miroirs No. 3 followed by Q&As with filmmaker Christian Petzold
- Dead Lover followed by Q&As with filmmakers Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie, guest moderators Sarah Sherman, John Early, and more
- Late-night screenings of Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls on 35mm
- Cria Cuervos on 35mm and Amarcord, curated by director Julia Ducournau (Titane, Alpha)
Jacob Burns Film Center
Perks
- 15% off new memberships
- Half-priced wine & beer (March 19–22, 5:00–6:30 pm)
Programming Highlights
- Double Feature: There Will Be Blood (on 35mm) + No Country for Old Men
- Fantastic Mr. Fox + guided drawing exercise
- Jewish Film Festival Opening Night: My Underground Mother + Q&A & reception
- The Immigrant Double Feature: James Gray's The Immigrant (2013) preceded by Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant (1917); part of monthly series Immigration Nation
- Fantasy Life + Q&A with filmmaker Matthew Shear; part of Jewish Film Festival
- Sapiro vs. Ford: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford + Q&A with director Gaylen Ross, producer Carol King, and actor Ben Shenkman; part of Jewish Film Festival
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan – Carole Zabar Center for Film
Programming Highlight
- Ken Scott's Once Upon My Mother
Maysles Documentary Center
Programming Highlights
- Ashley Clark Presents The World of Black Film Documentaries including a book party, reception and screenings of Integration Report 1, The Black and the Green, and Fluid Frontiers on March 21
- Special Screening of Will by Jessie Maple on March 24
Metrograph
Perks
- During AHNY Cinema Week, Metrograph Members receive a complimentary order of fries with any purchase of an alcoholic or N/A beverage in the Commissary (limit to one redemption per day per person)
Programming Highlights
- Boris Barnet, A Soviet Poet Retrospective, including rare 35mm prints from the Filmarchiv Austria
- The Maiku Hama Trilogy: The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994), The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995), and The Trap (1996) – 30th Anniversary Restorations
- The Murray Center at 10 and Two by Sergei Loznitsa – A Secret Screening of a film from True/False 2026 and Panel on the Future of Documentary organized by The Murray Center with esteemed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, True/False 2026 Visiting Creative Director Yance Ford, and others to be announced, plus the US Premieres of two films by Loznitsa (2024's The Invasion and the accompanying 2025 short Paleontology Lesson), with director Q&A
- Let the Sunshine In with an introduction from Juliette Binoche
- Inherent Vice (35mm), Kiss Me Deadly, and more in the series After the Case
- Battle Royale, Ghost Dog (35mm), Kill Bill 1-2 (35mm), and more as part of the series Sukiyaki Bebop
- Pinocchio on IB-Tech 35mm as part of our monthly It Started with a Mouse: Hand-Drawn Classics on 35mm series
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Programming Highlights
- MoMA Présents: Lumière, Le Cinéma!
- A View from the Vaults: The 1980s
- Marilyn Monroe: Celluloid Dream
Museum of the Moving Image
Perks:
Programming Highlights (35mm prints), all part of the film series "2001: The Year, Not the Movie"
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- In Praise of Love
- Ghost World
Nitehawk Cinemas
Perks
- Buy One Get One free promo (sent day after screening for any normal ticket purchase)
- Bar happy hour & daily specials at Trees Lounge in Prospect Park and Lo-Res in Williamsburg
- Show ticket stub anytime at Trees Lounge in Prospect Park and at Lo-Res in Williamsburg for happy hour drink pricing any time
Programming Highlights
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance – 35mm – Nitehawk Prospect Park
- Shattered Glass – 35mm (Femme Photographers series) – Nitehawk Williamsburg
- Faust + live score (Live Sound Cinema) – Nitehawk Williamsburg
Paris Theater
Programming Highlight
- Sneak Preview - Episode One of Something Very Bad is Going to Happen + Q&A with creator Haley Z. Boston, cast members Camila Marrone & Adam DiMarco | Free with RSVP
- Special Screenings for AHNY Cinema Week - All Seats $10
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Director's Cut) – The Paris Theater's own 70mm print
- Lawrence Of Arabia – The Paris Theater's own 70mm print
Quad Cinema
Perks
- $2 off wine all week
- $5 small combo with the purchase of any ticket (Monday-Thursday)
- BOGO in person sale only for any Matinee film before 5:45PM (Monday-Thursday)
Programming Highlights
- Spacewoman followed by filmmaker Q&A
- "March Melodromatic Film Series"
- March movie All About My Mother, playing March 24, 25, and 26, playing on film. Included in your ticket would be a small combo, which is a small popcorn and drink
Roxy Cinema New York
Programming Highlights
- "Nico Films Series"
- "Frederick Wiseman Film Series"
- "Downtown NY Filmmakers Series"
Shorts Movie Theater
Special Event
- Longer Days Ahead – Spring Equinox Party
- Free event
- Curated shorts program
- Bar space & vendors
- Flexible entry between films
UnionDocs
Programming Highlights
- Todo Parecia Posible (Everything Seemed Possible) – NYC Premiere
- Defectors – NYC Premiere
Uptown Film Center
Programming & Events
- "Tales of the Immigrant City – In America" with Colum McCann (at The New York Historical)
- Uptown Open House Hard Hat Tours – reservation required
Village East by Angelika
Perks
- 50% off tickets (March 23–26) for Angelika Members
- Free large popcorn with new Free Angelika Membership (March 20–26)
- 40% off merchandise (March 20–26)
Programming Highlights
- Project Hail Mary – 70mm
- Esta Isla + Q&A with Directors Cristian Carretero and Lorraine Jones
Full List of Cinema Week Theaters:
28 Liberty St Suite SC301, New York, NY 10005
2636 Hylan Blvd Unit 34, Staten Island, NY 10306
18 W Houston St, New York, NY 10012
32 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
651 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
1001 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10022
423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY 11743
22 E 12th St, New York, NY 10003
Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
87 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013
165 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023
209 W Houston St, New York, NY 10014
323 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014
364 Manville Rd, Pleasantville, NY 10570
81-05 Lefferts Blvd, Kew Gardens, NY 11415
334 Amsterdam Ave at, W 76th St, New York, NY 10023
343 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027
7 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002
11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019
36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106
188 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, NY 11215
136 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11249
4 W 58th St, New York, NY 10019
34 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011
2 Sixth Avenue Cellar Level, New York, NY 10013
99 Scott Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237 (pop-up location)
3-52 Onderdonk Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385
2626 Broadway, New York, NY 10025
181-189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
217 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211