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 3rd and beyond. If you host an event and we missed you, please let us know - info@greenroomnewyork.com.

Jul 3 (4:50pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Jul 3 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a quiet queer icon, captivated readers everywhere with her accessible celebration of nature, dogs, and life itself.

Jul 3 (7:20pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Aspiring singer Wendy hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big in the music business. She soon finds romance with Hiro, a rock 'n' roll musician who convinces her to become the lead singer in his band.

Jul 5 (2:55pm), Jul 6 (7:20pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A portrait of the various forms of male sexism existing in contemporary American society.

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.

Jul 7 (6:30pm)

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.

Jul 7 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A weathered tribal cop and his new trainee must find a ruthless fugitive, whose return to their rural Indigenous reservation has exposed its darkest secrets and could ignite a violent gang war.

Jul 7 (7:20pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are dealt with by the government.

Jul 8 (6:45pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patron of the Times Square porn theater called Variety where she works selling tickets. This awakens her sexuality, which confuses her worried boyfriend.

Jul 8 (7:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.

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.

Jul 8 (7:30pm), Jul 9 (7:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.

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.

Jul 9 (6:35pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Slice-of-life look at Roberto and Aurelia, Cuban exiles living in New York City with their 17-year-old daughter Aurelita. It's February, 1978; the winter is harsh, and for 10 years Roberto's been the super of an apartment building: firing up the boiler, repairing windows, moving bags of garbage. He's homesick for Cuba.

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.

Jul 9 (7pm), Jul 10 (7pm), Jul 11 (5pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A professor in revolutionary Iran secretly gathers her most dedicated students to read forbidden classics of Western literature.

Jul 10 (6:30pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

Story about nuns living in a remote convent during the Marcos years.

Jul 10 (7pm), Jul 11 (7pm)

Village East (181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan)

Haunted by an accident he caused in high school, a filmmaker is drawn back to his hometown where he is confronted by former friends and a community that disdains him as he tries to find peace with the hurt he left behind.

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.

Jul 10 (7:15pm), Jul 11 (7:15pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

In an impoverished neighborhood of 1980s Medellín, a group of disaffected teens steals a TV reporter's camera to document their lives.

Jul 10 (7pm), Jul 11 (7pm), Jul 12 (3:45pm)

Firehouse Cinema DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)

As a young woman in a conservative Christian community, Gail gave birth alone and left her newborn in the woods. Decades later, she's arrested for murder, despite her claim that the baby was stillborn.

Jul 10 (7pm), Jul 11 (7pm), Jul 12 (7pm)

Quad Cinema (34 West 13th Street, Manhattan)

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.

Jul 11 (2:15pm)

Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, Manhattan)

An undocumented Filipina trans woman falls in love in Brooklyn.

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.

Jul 12 (12:30pm)

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

This is a show of 3 films.

Norouz: Persian Spring Festival (1961). Time capsule of the Bay Area in the 1960s, showcasing the presence of Iranian American families and communities nearly 20 years before the revolution.

Best in the West (2006). Examines the lives of four lifelong friends who studied in the United States with humor, warmth, and bittersweetness.

Untitled, Jackson Heights (2024) by Armon Mahdavi. Personal documentary examines public spaces in Queens through a poignant, epistolary voiceover correspondence from a mother to her child.

Jul 12 (5pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

EXPOSED profiles eight women and men who use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos that our society holds dear. These cutting edge performers - operating on the far edge of burlesque - combine politics, satire, and physical comedy to question the very concept of 'normal.'

Jul 12 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A nostalgic exploration of the Borscht Belt's golden era through Grossinger's Resort, once the crown jewel of Jewish vacation destinations in the Catskills, from its heyday to decline.

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.

Jul 15 (7pm)

Angelika NY (18 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

A hypnotic, unhinged thriller with an original story promising plenty of glamour, sex, and violence.

Jul 15 (7pm), Jul 26 (5:45pm), 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.

Jul 16 (7:30pm)

UnionDocs (352 Onderdonk Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens)

A history of the tornado as both a destructive weather event and an American icon.

Jul 16 (8pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early Native Latino American rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.

Jul 17 (6:45pm with Lou Diamond Phillips), Jul 18 (4:30pm, 7:15pm)

Film Forum (209 West Houston Street, Manhattan)

Luis Valdez elevates Chicano narratives to cinema through Zoot Suit and La Bamba, overcoming political and industry pushback to create landmark films that broaden and honor America's cultural story.

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.

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.

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.

Jul 21 (7pm)

92NY (1395 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan)

A prequel to Star Trek (1966), this series follows the crew of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike.

Jul 22 (7:30pm)

IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Set during the first quarter storm in the 1970s, policemen Homer, Conrad, and Billy are consumed by the murder case of troublemaking teenagers in the slums.

Jul 22 (9pm)

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

A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music.

Jul 24 (6pm)

Metrograph (7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan)

In a repressive city-state, a tomboy schoolgirl persuades three classmates at an all-girls school to rebel by forming a triad gang.

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.

Jul 27 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

A young gymnast, who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all.

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.

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.

Jul 30 (7pm)

Roxy Cinema (2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan)

Over a retrospective of Lunch's confrontational, acerbic and always electric spoken word performance and music.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

Aug 7 (9:30pm), Aug 8 (7:45pm)

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.

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.

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.