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 June 12th and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.
Rebel with a Clause - Q&A with Director Brandt Johnson, film subject Ellen Jovin
Jun 12 (4:15pm)
New Plaza Cinema (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan) **new temp location
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.
In The Hand Of Dante - Q&A with Director Julian Schnabel, Actor Sabrina Impacciatore
Jun 12 (6:30pm)
Paris Theater (4 West 58th Street, Manhattan)
A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.
Love Unto Waste - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 12 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Four young people spend their time living the wild life - until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary.
Promised Sky - Q&A with Writer/Director Erige Sehiri, Actor Laetitia Ky
Jun 12 (7pm)
Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
Marie, Naney, and Jolie live together in Tunis, sheltering Kenza, a shipwreck survivor. As this unorthodox family forms, crises make each woman reconsider her place.
Pompei: Below the Clouds - Q&A with Writer/Director Gianfranco Rosi
Jun 12 (7:20pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Naples faces dual volcanic threats from Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei. Amid increasing tremors, archaeologists work as residents live anxiously, haunted by Pompeii's fate while emergency services strain.
Faces of Death - Q&A with Writer/Director Daniel Goldhaber
Jun 12 (7:45pm)
Roxy Cinema (2 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan)
A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.
O Horizon - Q&A with Writer/Director Madeleine Rotzler
Jun 12 (7:10pm with Adam Pally), Jun 13 (2:15pm with David Strathairn), Jun 13 (7:10pm with Paulina Porizkova)
Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)
Abby, a brilliant young neuroscientist, encounters a new technology that reconnects her with her recently deceased father.
Gaslit - Q&A with Director Katie Camosy
Jun 12 (7pm with Jane Fonda, moderated by Alec Baldwin), Jun 13 (7pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
Jane Fonda travels across the oil fields of West Texas' Permian Basin and through the Gulf Coast of Louisiana visiting the communities impacted by oil and gas production.
I Shot Andy Warhol - Q&A with Director Mary Harron
Jun 12 (7:15pm), Jun 13 (6:45pm with DP Ellen Kuras), Jun 14 (6:45pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
The story of Valerie Solanas, a '60s radical who preached misandry in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but after he repeatedly ignored her, she shot him.
The Gas Station Attendant - Q&A with Director Karla Murthy
Jun 12 (7pm), Jun 13 (6pm), Jun 14 (5pm), Jun 18 (6:30pm)
Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
A daughter contemplates her South Asian father's journey, his constant chase of the American dream, and humanity's ability to love and endure.
Stop! That! Train! - Q&A with Director Adam Shankman
Jun 13 (12pm)
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn (445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn)
Two train stewardess BFFs switch from a dull railway to the luxurious Glamazonian Express. During a massive storm, they must work with snooty first-class crew and President Gagwell to prevent disaster in LA.
Rouge - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 13 (12:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A 1930s courtesan and a wealthy heir plan to die together, but he never shows up in the afterlife. Fifty years later, her ghost visits a newspaper office to place an ad searching for him, captivating a modern couple with her tragic tale.
Full Moon in New York - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 13 (3:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Three very different Asian women forge a friendship in New York.
Fire at Sea - Q&A with Director Gianfranco Rosi
Jun 13 (5pm)
Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
Center Stage - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 13 (6:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
Red Rose White Rose - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan, moderated by Isabel Sandoval
Jun 14 (12:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose).
Lan Yu - Q&A with Director Stanley Kwan
Jun 14 (4:30pm)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)
A young gay student has a relationship with an older successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet straight, life or an honest, yet subversive, life with the student.
Couture - Q&A with Actor Angelina Jolie, Writer/Director Alice Winocour
Jun 14 (6pm)
AMC Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway, Manhattan)
An American filmmaker arrives in Paris for Fashion Week on a life-and-death journey, facing challenges and self-discovery.
Couture - Q&A with Writer/Director Alice Winocour
Jun 15 (8pm)
Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)
An American filmmaker arrives in Paris for Fashion Week on a life-and-death journey, facing challenges and self-discovery.
Maddie's Secret - Q&A with Director John Early
Jun 16 (7pm), Jun 17 (7pm), Jun 19 (2:15pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A food influencer secretly struggles with bulimia as she navigates online fame, close friendships, and a painful past.
Riverbend - Q&A with Director Sam Firstenberg, Actors Julius Tennon & Vanessa Tate
Jun 17 (7pm)
BAM Rose Cinemas (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.
True North - Q&A with Director Michèle Stephenson
Jun 17 (6:30pm), Jun 18 (6:30pm)
IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)
A documentary on the 1969 Black student protests against racism at Montreal's Concordia University, highlighting their role in Black liberation movements.
Terror House - Q&A with Director Mark Polonia
Jun 18 (9:30pm)
Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn)
Looking to cash in on a twenty-five thousand dollar reward, three college students venture into a haunted house.
Flag Day - Q&A with Producers/Directors Andrew Shea & Melissa Shea
Jun 18 (7pm), 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.
Peter Asher: Everywhere Man - Q&A with Directors Dan Geller & Danya Goldfine
Jun 18 (7:15pm), 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Camp - Q&A with Director Avalon Fast
Jun 24 (7pm)
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.
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 (2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan) ** change of venue location
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.